Re: Group policy not applied at first logon - works after re-logon, 1

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Hi
check
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842804

Is the Windows XP is with SP2, with FW (or any other FW) disable it and
check if the error still applies.

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Good Luck
Jorge Silva
MCSA
Systems Administrator

"sddjd" <sddjd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Our network uses a logon script to map needed network drives and apply
policy
in the following
format:

\\domain.local\sysvol\domain.local\Policies\...etc.

We added six new XP Pro machines to our SBS 2003 network (a new SBS server
replacing the prev. SBS2k server) and have found that (so far) only these
new
XP stations exhibit this behavior. Our older stations use win2k save for
two
older XP Pro machines (diff hardware from the new units) that do not
exhibit
the problem. The following error is being registered:

Couldn't find the group policy template file
<\\domain.local\sysvol\domain.local\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\gpt.ini>,
error = 0x35

Note the 0x35 error code which unrelated to anything I've been able to
find
on the KB pertaining to group policies. What's odd is that these six
machines seem to have the symptom of the NETBIOS & computer browser
services
taking quite some time to get started and poll the network. At logon the
office network isn't visible in windows explorer, taking up to 1 minute to
appear. At this point if users log off, then on again the policy script
runs
perfectly.

These same computers also had an issue with attempting to act as the
primary
machine on the network, possibly due to the invisibilty of other computers
as
thy boot. As a result of this the computer browser service was disabled
on
each station. This was a first in our (and our IT consultant's)
experience.

Currently we have a desktop shortcut to the logon app on the server, but
this is a temporary fix to a larger problem obviously. Everyone is
currently
at a loss.... has anyone experienced similar?


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