Group Policy and Windows XP Client

[Guest]

I am attempting to update the group policy on a clienct (XP Pro SP2, using
local profiles for domain accounts, not roaming profiles) and in the event
log I get the error 1058 saying the ini file cannot be found (as opposed to
access denied).

It says it is looking in \\[domain]\sysvol\[domain]\[clsid]
rather than \\[dc[\...
and when I point explorer to \\[domain] at first it was not found and then I
explicitly added the host [domain].[domain] to the DNS Forward Lookup Zone
(MS DNS) and then the folder appears empty.
I can find the ini file for the GPO if I point to
\\[dc]\sysvol\[domain]\[clsid].

My server is 2000 AS SP4.

Has anyone else had this problem, if so how can I work around it?

 

[Ali Sajjad [MSFT]]

It is normal for the event 1058 to show
\\[domain]\sysvol\[domain]\[GUIDofGPO]. You need not create any records in
your DNS forward lookup zones manually. \\Domain\sysvol should always
resolve to one of the domain controllers' sysvol folder.

Try connecting to \\Domain\sysvol if this does not work, you need to fix
your DNS records first.
If from the same windows XP SP2 machine you are able to connect to
\\Domain\sysvol, then it is not a DNS issue, rather you need to check the
group policy templates that are replicated to all DCs under the
sysvol\[domain]\ folder.

I hope the above will give you a good starting point for troubleshooting the
issue.