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Hello everyone,

I have a 2000 client that doesn't seem to be getting any group policys. In the event log, under applications there is a errors that seem to repeat a fair bit.. and then there is a infomation regarding the GP..

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Event Type: Error

Event Source: Userenv

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date:  18/06/2004

Time:  6:25:32 AM

User:  NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM

Computer: KIDS

Description:

Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. Return value (1359).

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

...and...

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Event Type: Information

Event Source: SceCli

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1704

Date:  18/06/2004

Time:  4:40:29 PM

User:  N/A

Computer: KIDS

Description:

Security policy in the Group policy objects are applied successfully.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Now according to the Event log it only applied the security policy, nothing else. Even when I try to manually grab the GP on the client it doesn't work, nor does it come up with a error message. The client is on the domain, no issues there. This is the only 2000 client on the network (Updating is NOT a possibility) ... XP works without issues.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-lieb39

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Well without knowing too much about your OU structure - and assuming that the XP and the 2k client are both applying the same GP i woud say that the users using the 2k box may not have "apply group policy" right.

If they do - or if users work on one and not the other computer. Then i would say go head hunting for basic connectivity issues.

Also does the 2k box take forever to "load personal settings"?

Dont know if this will work but try:

ComputerName = InputBox("Enter the name of a Windows XP or 2003 Computer","Information","") 

UserName = InputBox("Enter the name of the user","Information","") 

reportloc = InputBox("Enter a report location","Information","c:\temp") 

reportloc = reportloc & "\" & UserName & ".htm" 

Set GPMC = CreateObject("GPMgmt.GPM") 

Set Constants = GPMC.GetConstants() 

Set RSOP= GPMC.GetRSOP(Constants.RSOPModeLogging,"",0) 

RSOP.LoggingComputer=ComputerName 

RSOP.LoggingUser=UserName 

RSOP.CreateQueryResults() 

RSOP.GenerateReportToFile Constants.ReportHTML, reportloc 

msgbox("report made to " & reportloc)

Put that into a text file and rename it "GPO_Result.vbs".

Now go to C:\ and create a directory called "temp".

Now run the vbs script. This will create a report depending on the username and computer name you insert into the input boxes.

This has worked on Server 2003 and XP Pro.

Choc

If he was able to join the domain, then his DNS should be fine. If you just added the computer account, it will be in the computers container and unless the policy you are talking about is the default domain policy, it is not affecting that PC. Move the computer account to an OU that has the policy applied.

I compared a client that was applying GP to one that wasn't.. and these are the results (just basically from ipconfig)

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Client with none-working GP

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

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Client with working GP

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes

The DNS are the same, Connection suffix is the same, and all that stuff the same. Now could the problem be anything to do with WINS proxy enabled?

-lieb39

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