Failed to open the Group Policy Object - Details: The system cannot find the path specified.

[Bill B]

All of a sudden, I started getting this error message on my W2k SP4
server.

Failed to open the Group Policy Object. You may not have appropriate
rights.
Details: The system cannot find the path specified.

This is the only server and it is the domain controller. I have seen
lots of posts on this issue but none seems to help me. I don't often
go into this area so I don't know when the policy started to fail. I
can still get into my AD.

I do have an error on my event view but I am not sure if it is
related.


The Netlogon service could not create server share . The following
error occurred:
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
Data:
0000: 7b 00 00 00 {...

Could these be related? Can I simply recreate my sysvol? Are they all
the same? Is there specific security info in the SYSVOL?


I really need to get this issue resolved, but I don't want to do more
damage.

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

[Guest]

Check to make sure you still have the Sysvol and Netlogon shares on the DC.
cmd prompt "net share"
If those are missing ensure you have the default admin shares C$ IPC$ admin$

Does this error occur when attempting to open both the default domain and
default doamin controller policy?

 

[Bill B]

Thank you for your response.

I have the sysvol as shared. I will check check on the netshare.

The results of the netshare command:

sysvol C:\WINNT\sysvol Logon server share
NETLOGON C:\WINNT\SYSVOL\sysvol\patriotfr.local\SCRIPTS
Logon server share

Yes both the domain controller security policy and the domain security policy fail.

 

[Bill B]

More information on the above problem.

I ran a Microsoft Tool named CPOTOOL. The results showed the following errors:

Domain: patriotfr.local
Validating DCs...
patriot-8dvhn.patriotfr.local: OK
Available DCs:
patriot-8dvhn.patriotfr.local
Searching for policies...
Found 4 policies
============================================================
Policy {31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}
Error: Cannot access \\patriot-8dvhn.patriotfr.local\sysvol\patriotfr.local\poli
cies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}, error 2
Details:
------------------------------------------------------------
DC: patriot-8dvhn.patriotfr.local
Friendly name: Default Domain Policy
Created: 08/20/2002 7:30:17 PM
Changed: 08/17/2003 1:52:29 AM
DS version: 1(user) 35(machine)
Sysvol version: not found
Flags: 0
User extensions: [{3060E8D0-7020-11D2-842D-00C04FA372D4}{3060E8CE-7020-11D2-842D
-00C04FA372D4}]
Machine extensions: [{35378EAC-683F-11D2-A89A-00C04FBBCFA2}{53D6AB1B-2488-11D1-A
28C-00C04FB94F17}][{827D319E-6EAC-11D2-A4EA-00C04F79F83A}{803E14A0-B4FB-11D0-A0D
0-00A0C90F574B}][{B1BE8D72-6EAC-11D2-A4EA-00C04F79F83A}{53D6AB1B-2488-11D1-A28C-
00C04FB94F17}]
Functionality version: 2
------------------------------------------------------------
============================================================
Policy {4F571CFC-4B11-478C-BFA8-FD948BDCF165}
Policy OK
Details:
------------------------------------------------------------
DC: patriot-8dvhn.patriotfr.local
Friendly name: New Group Policy Object
Created: 03/17/2004 2:12:15 AM
Changed: 03/17/2004 4:10:36 AM
DS version: 60(user) 0(machine)
Sysvol version: 60(user) 0(machine)
Flags: 0
User extensions: [{25537BA6-77A8-11D2-9B6C-0000F8080861}{88E729D6-BDC1-11D1-BD2A
-00C04FB9603F}][{35378EAC-683F-11D2-A89A-00C04FBBCFA2}{0F6B957E-509E-11D1-A7CC-0
000F87571E3}]
Machine extensions: not found
Functionality version: 2
------------------------------------------------------------
============================================================
Policy {6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}
Error: Cannot access \\patriot-8dvhn.patriotfr.local\sysvol\patriotfr.local\poli
cies\{6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}, error 2
Details:
------------------------------------------------------------
DC: patriot-8dvhn.patriotfr.local
Friendly name: Default Domain Controllers Policy
Created: 08/20/2002 7:30:17 PM
Changed: 11/05/2003 11:21:08 PM
DS version: 0(user) 33(machine)
Sysvol version: not found
Flags: 0
User extensions: not found
Machine extensions: [{827D319E-6EAC-11D2-A4EA-00C04F79F83A}{803E14A0-B4FB-11D0-A
0D0-00A0C90F574B}]
Functionality version: 2
------------------------------------------------------------
============================================================
Policy {8A8B1174-3D8E-4B2E-A2E5-E3E1730C7421}
Error: Cannot access \\patriot-8dvhn.patriotfr.local\sysvol\patriotfr.local\poli
cies\{8A8B1174-3D8E-4B2E-A2E5-E3E1730C7421}, error 2
Details:
------------------------------------------------------------
DC: patriot-8dvhn.patriotfr.local
Friendly name: lolgp
Created: 06/09/2003 6:08:44 PM
Changed: 06/10/2003 10:31:15 PM
DS version: 0(user) 4(machine)
Sysvol version: not found
Flags: 0
User extensions: not found
Machine extensions: [{827D319E-6EAC-11D2-A4EA-00C04F79F83A}{803E14A0-B4FB-11D0-A
0D0-00A0C90F574B}]
Functionality version: 2
------------------------------------------------------------

Errors found

I am not sure if this is related to my Domain Controller Policy not opening.

Again, thanks for the help so far and future posts.

Bill B