Domain Controller Security Policy

[William]

Could someone please help me with the following?



I have two Windows 2000 Servers running Active Directory
they both are Domain Controllers in same Domain. DNS is
up and running with no problem between the two of them.
My problem is up until about four days ago I was able to
go into "Domain Controller Security Policy" (in Control
Panel - Admin Tools) on one of my Servers (lets call it
Server1) and add users in the "Logon Locally" in the
Users Rights Assignment under Local Polices in Security
Settings. Now whenever I go into "Domain Controller
Security Policy" the only thing I have access to
in "Security Settings" is Public Key Polices and IP
Security Polices on Active Directory. It will not
display the "Local Polices" which contains User Rights
Assignment nor does it shows any longer the following:



Account Policies

Event log

Restricted Groups

System Services

Registry

File System



Whenever I go into "Domain Controller Security Policy" on
both Servers (Server1 or Server2) and click on Security
Settings I receive the following message on the right
window pane; "Windows cannot open Template file".



The other puzzling thing about this problem is that if I
go into the policy editor at the command level using;
DOMPOL.MSC, I get the following results:



Server2 = I see all available keys and theirs sub-keys
with the "Local Setting" and "Effective Setting"

Server1 = I see all available keys and theirs sub-keys
but no "Local Setting" and Effective Setting", instead
they are all "Not Define".



Any help you could give me on this would be greatly
appreciated.



Thanks

William

 

[Guest]

Hello William:
This may be basic, but let's just see if this helps. I ran into the
same thing this morning. What I did was drill down to the User Assignments
section and selected it. All the 36 assignments were there. also, check the
following... this is also what I had to do yesterday:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;278316

I hope this helps.
Jack