Re: GPO issue on 1 pc

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Well, ruling out the duplicate SID, which I don't believe it is either - just
wanted to ask the question - what would cause those errors to show up since
the day the laptop was put into the domain?

Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network.
(A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable host. ). Group Policy
processing aborted.

Mike

"Herb Martin" wrote:


"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you Gentlemen for the responses - it gives me a place to start
looking.

I do see since 8/06 errors about:

Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer
network.
(A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable host. ). Group Policy
processing aborted.

Would this error come about because of the laptop having a cloned image
put
on it?

Maybe but I don't see a specific reason for that unless it is failing to
authenticate
due to a DUPLICATE SID (failure to run SysPrep or equivalent to prevent
cloning
the SID.)


"Herb Martin" wrote:


"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've got an end user that when I run Group Policy Results on their
laptop -
nothing is showing up under the Computer Configuration for Group
Policy.

All of our User Configurations for Group Policy are being applie.

Anyone know why this would happen and how I can fix it?

So the issue is the COMPUTER portion of 1-GPO?

Most likely reasons are:

1) Computer is not in an OU (etc) where the GPO is linked

2) Permissions (unlikely but possible) filtering

3) Computer isn't authenticating -- working off of cached GPOs

4) DC which authenticates Computer isn't fully replicated -- AD or
SysVol

Check Computer location -- ensure it is in an OU etc where other
computers
are seeing the results. If so this problem is peculiar to this computer.

Use GPResult to "See" what GPOs are being applied.

Set LogonServer (to see the Authenticating DC)

NetDiag /v (to check the computer for network problems)

DCDiag /c (on every DC to prove that they are replicated and DNS is
working -- especially on the one mentioned in
"set
logonserver"
above)


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