Hello,

I find that all of my recently installed workstations in the Windows 2000
domain get an Access Denied message when they attempt to get the Group
Policy. I have verified the permissions on the SysVol and they are correct.

The user is not significant - even the Domain Admin fails to get the Policy.

The afflicted workstations show USERENV errors refelcting this condition.

I would appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks.
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0pter0n 1944

0pter0n1944 wrote:
> 0pter0n 1944;7580432 Wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I find that all of my recently installed workstations in the Windows
>> 2000
>> domain get an Access Denied message when they attempt to get the Group
>> Policy. I have verified the permissions on the SysVol and they are
>> correct.
>>
>> The user is not significant - even the Domain Admin fails to get the
>> Policy.
>>
>> The afflicted workstations show USERENV errors refelcting this
>> condition.
>>
>> I would appreciate any suggestions.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> --
>> 0pter0n 1944
>
> Upon further review, testing with the Group Policy Management Tool
> shows that all workstations in the domain fail. the Group Policy Results
> Wizard shows this failure under the "Component Status" section. The
> message states: Group Policy Infrastructure failed due to the error
> listed below. Access is denied.
>
> In the logs, the USERENV errors state that the Group Policy file could
> not be reached.
>
> Perhaps this will be enough for someone to help out.
>
> Thanks.
>
>

Most of the time, this will be a DNS issue. Verify that you can resolve
the domain name from the clients. Check your DNS log in event viewer.
Make sure you don't have an off-site DNS server configured on the
clients. Run dns diagnostics. Let us know if you find anything. Also
look for RPC errors.