Group policy folders in sysvol corrupt/not accessible - users cannot login
Users had trouble logging in and working on our network. When checking things, discovered we could not view the group policies.
Found something here about the message we were getting and swapped PDC emulator role to another server.
This helped for a few minutes and then problem continued, and seems the policies folders/files under sysvol are corrupted on one server (explorer dies when we try to open them).
Copied the ones from the "good" server to the "bad" one (in safe mode, with reboots, etc). This seemed to help for a while (an hour or so) but the corruption (or whatever) has reoccurred again.
If the good server logs users in, they can work ok.
Recent change was installation of Arcserve open files agent (last night). Have now uninstalled and rebooted to see what happens.
In the meantime can anyone help and/or confirm the Arcserve link?
Cheers,
Mike.
Found something here about the message we were getting and swapped PDC emulator role to another server.
This helped for a few minutes and then problem continued, and seems the policies folders/files under sysvol are corrupted on one server (explorer dies when we try to open them).
Copied the ones from the "good" server to the "bad" one (in safe mode, with reboots, etc). This seemed to help for a while (an hour or so) but the corruption (or whatever) has reoccurred again.
If the good server logs users in, they can work ok.
Recent change was installation of Arcserve open files agent (last night). Have now uninstalled and rebooted to see what happens.
In the meantime can anyone help and/or confirm the Arcserve link?
Cheers,
Mike.
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I can't find the mentioned error messages in the event log.
Thanks anyway,
:)
Thanks anyway,
:)
go into your tools/options/view tab, and click in the show frame the "windows in taskbar" option
hope that helps...
j
hope that helps...
j
sorry, ignore that,, wrong screen
a possible anwser for your problem though, would be to use a backup of the gpo.
check this link out:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/distsys/part1/dsgch09.asp
it will guide you through the process.
Jay
check this link out:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/distsys/part1/dsgch09.asp
it will guide you through the process.
Jay
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