Re: Netlogon Share and Script Folder missing

From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:33:54 -0400

In news:57075437-4A66-40D3-87CA-6311C5D0BD8A@microsoft.com,
Greg <Greg@discussions.microsoft.com> made a post then I commented below
> I have a client that has only complained recently that the logon
> script fails to run at sign-in by the users.They are setup with one
> 2000 server running AD,Exchange and IIS, with a 2000 member server
> hosting File and Print Duties. Both servers run SP4 and the Sysvol
> and NTDS folders reside on a different drive running RAID 5.
>
> Upon further investigation into the reasons for the logon script not
> running, it would appear that the script Folder has been deleted
> under the Sysvol. All attempts to restore the system state have
> failed, because the error occured more than 6 months ago, just after
> deployment to this customer, and the backup tapes all have this
> error. All attempts to recreate the folder and share it out as
> Netlogon have failed because when you log the user's in, the script
> does not run. I have followed the Microsoft KB bulletins (257338,
> 229679, 315457, 78209, 75294 and 258805 being desperate) to repair
> Directory services and replication.
>
> How could this occur considering no user has Admin or power user
> rights in the domain? They only have modify rights to their Group
> Folders and Home drive and none of the outside Domain Adminis have
> admitted that they deleted any of these folders. If I brought in a
> member server, and ran Dcpromo on it, would it re-create the Netlogon
> share, or would it replicate the errors from the primary domain
> controller?

I haven't seen this error as of yet, but just to point out, any time you add
a DC to the domain, it replicates everything over from the other DCs.

Have you manually created the folder and shared it? If your clients are
Win2k or newer, why not just use GPOs for your logon scripts? 

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