Restricted Groups Not Working



Hi ,
I'm trying through Group policy to add a Security Group which I have created called Notts-xpadmins to the local administrators group on my xp workstations. I have created the group in ad and have assigned the users to the group through the 'Members of this Group' section in the Restricted groups and specified 'administrators' in the 'This group is a member of '


So far nothing is working although the rest of the GP is working.
I have researched this slighly and have turned on debugging so that I can see the winlogon.log file in the security folder. I am getting scecli 1202 events in the eventlog but cannot seem to see what the problem is. The MS article refers to the users/group being recently deleted in AD but this is definately not the case.


Could it be a corrupted GP? If so then it would be 2 separate GPs which are corrupted as this is occuring with at least 2 GP's that I have tried.

Although previously I have had this working by using the Domain Users group to the local administrators group I do not want to add domain users to local admins for obvious reasons.

Please find below a copy of the winlog.log file i have taken from my win xp sp2 workstation
The MS KB article I have been using to troubleshoot is Q324383.


The Domain is Win2k3 running in full Native mode.

Any help would be most gratefully recieved.

cheers



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No template is defined in GPO \\i3.co.uk\SysVol\i3.co.uk\Policies\{5C036063-D807-4613-8A8D-80DC41C72395}\Machine.

Make a local copy of \\i3.co.uk\sysvol\i3.co.uk\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\Machine\Microsoft\Windows NT\SecEdit\GptTmpl.inf.
GPLinkDomain GPO_INFO_FLAG_BACKGROUND )


Make a local copy of \\i3.co.uk\SysVol\i3.co.uk\Policies\{605E3F4E-F240-4E73-9A92-9DA478C00C93}\Machine\Microsoft\Windows NT\SecEdit\GptTmpl.inf.
GPLinkOrganizationUnit GPO_INFO_FLAG_BACKGROUND )


Process GP template gpt00000.dom.

This is not the last GPO.
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08 April 2005 16:25:59
	Administrative privileged user logged on.
	Parsing template C:\WINDOWS\security\templates\policies\gpt00000.dom.
Error 1208: An extended error has occurred.
 	Error creating database.
----Configuration engine was initialized with one or more errors.----


----Un-initialize configuration engine... **************************

No template is defined in GPO \\i3.co.uk\SysVol\i3.co.uk\Policies\{5C036063-D807-4613-8A8D-80DC41C72395}\Machine.

Make a local copy of \\i3.co.uk\sysvol\i3.co.uk\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\Machine\Microsoft\Windows NT\SecEdit\GptTmpl.inf.
GPLinkDomain GPO_INFO_FLAG_BACKGROUND )


Make a local copy of \\i3.co.uk\SysVol\i3.co.uk\Policies\{605E3F4E-F240-4E73-9A92-9DA478C00C93}\Machine\Microsoft\Windows NT\SecEdit\GptTmpl.inf.
GPLinkOrganizationUnit GPO_INFO_FLAG_BACKGROUND )


Process GP template gpt00000.dom.

This is not the last GPO.
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08 April 2005 16:26:05
	Administrative privileged user logged on.
	Parsing template C:\WINDOWS\security\templates\policies\gpt00000.dom.
Error 1208: An extended error has occurred.
 	Error creating database.
----Configuration engine was initialized with one or more errors.----


----Un-initialize configuration engine... .



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