Group Policy - If it ain't broke, don't fix it

[Kathy]

Please help. In my ultimate wisdom, I tried to modify a
group policy when the default policy had never been
touched (nothing was configured). I went to edit the
group policy and changed one parameter and now things are
screwed up. My previously mapped drives don't map anymore
and the roaming profiles cannot be found. At the bottom
of the message saying the roaming profiles cannot be
found, I get a message that says, "Detail - the network
name cannot be found." I have since gone back and undone
what I did in the group policy editor. I am running a
Windows 2000 Server (ver 5.0) with XP and 2000
Professional PCs. The users all use roaming profiles. On
the server I have several mapped drives containing common
files.

I can still logon to my server directly, but can't see the
mapped drives. The icons are there, but when I double
click on them, I don't get anything.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

What setting did you change? When you reversed the change did you disable the change
or set it to undefined. If you set it to undefined try to disable the setting [or
disable depending on the case] . Look in Event Viewer for any pertinent errors that
may help in fixing the problem and try rebooting the server. If you have a recent
backup of your domain controller including the System State, an option may be to
restore your Active Directory if the problem persists. -- Steve

 

[Kathy]

Steve,
Thanks for your reply. The setting I changed was
\user_configuration\administrative
_templates\network\offline_files\synchronize all offline
files before logging off. I have since disabled it and
put it to not configured with the same result. Do you
know if the default group policy is used if no other one
is specified? I do have a recent backup, but I slightly
hesitant to use it since I think this should be an easy
fix. Thanks again.

Event viewer. I checked out the event viewer and found
this peculiar warning four times in the system log: The
server was unable to logon the Windows NT
account 'asdfghjk' due to the following error: Logon
failure: unknown user name or bad password. The data is
the error code.
For additional information specific to this message please
visit the Microsoft Online Support site located at:

I also found this event in the application log: Windows
cannot access the registry information at
\\nrotc.marquette.edu\sysvol\nrotc.marquette.edu\Policies\{
31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\Machine\registry.pol
with (53).

Not sure if these mean anything to you.

-----Original Message-----
What setting did you change? When you reversed the change did you disable the change
or set it to undefined. If you set it to undefined try to disable the setting [or
disable depending on the case] . Look in Event Viewer for any pertinent errors that
may help in fixing the problem and try rebooting the server. If you have a recent
backup of your domain controller including the System State, an option may be to
restore your Active Directory if the problem persists. -- Steve

Please help. In my ultimate wisdom, I tried to modify a
group policy when the default policy had never been
touched (nothing was configured). I went to edit the
group policy and changed one parameter and now things are
screwed up. My previously mapped drives don't map anymore
and the roaming profiles cannot be found. At the bottom
of the message saying the roaming profiles cannot be
found, I get a message that says, "Detail - the network
name cannot be found." I have since gone back and undone
what I did in the group policy editor. I am running a
Windows 2000 Server (ver 5.0) with XP and 2000
Professional PCs. The users all use roaming profiles. On
the server I have several mapped drives containing common
files.

I can still logon to my server directly, but can't see the
mapped drives. The icons are there, but when I double
click on them, I don't get anything.

.