I've gone through virtually all the posts that had anything to do with a missing SYSVOL folder. I'm not sure if my situation is slightly different. Here is a description of our environment, and what I believe caused this problem:
We have 3 Windows 2003 SP2 Domain Controllers in a single Domain. What happened is one of our DC's completely crashed and we rebuilt the same server and restored everything from backup. Everything seemed to be OK until we noticed our Application Event Log started filling up with 1030, 1058 errors. These errors are not only filling up the rebuilt DC, but all DC's and all Domain Computers in our environment.
Here is what the 1058 error says.
Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini for GPO CN={31B2F340-016D-11D2-945
F-00C04FB9
84F9},CN=P
olicies,CN
=System,DC
=golyon,DC
=com. The file must be present at the location <\\golyon.com\sysvol\golyo
n.com\Poli
cies\{31B2
F340-016D-
11D2-945F-
00C04FB984
F9}\gpt.in
i>. (The system cannot find the path specified. ). Group Policy processing aborted.
Here is the 1030 error
Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects. Check the event log for possible messages previously logged by the policy engine that describes the reason for this.
I'm sure you guys have seen this problem before. Of course now I cannot edit my Default Domain Policy, because it's not where it's supposed to be.
These are the things I know are working:
FRS is OK
DNS is OK
Sites and Services and the Topology seem to be OK.
Everybody can authenticate, and this is having zero effect on our business. I think only Group Policy is messed up. Luckily we don't use hardly any GP.
If there is a clear cut way to fix this, please let me know. I've looked through several Microsoft KB articals, and it's not clear which one to go by. I'm ready to call Microsoft if this is really involved
I've ran dcdiag and I get NETLOGON failures, unable to connect to the NETLOGON share, of course because it doesn't exist anymore
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