RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and Event ID: 1054

[Darren Mar-Elia]

Brenda- Make sure your DCs are properly registering their SRV records. For GPOs, you're specifically looking for an ldap locator record like this:    _ldap._tcp.<mysite>._sites.dc._msdcs.<mycompany>.com   Also make sure your clients have the correct DNS references--i.e. they are consistent and pointing to reliable, correctly populated DNS servers.  Also, do you have ICMP either disabled or restricted on your network? That will cause problems with GPO processing,   Darren From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brenda Wilkins Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and Event ID: 1054 One thing I just learned, actually, many hours later, a system that got the below error message, will later just start to work, even without a reboot! Also, when I said that if I reimage and reconfigure it starts to work. Well, that is true, but it may also stop working later again. I’m so confused.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brenda Wilkins Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 3:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and Event ID: 1054   Here’s my problem. We have computers in the lab that are working just fine in all ways including applying the correct Group Policy. Then all of a sudden, out of no where, a random number of computers begin to give me the message below. And nothing seems to get it back. Not even removing it from the domain and then re-adding it back in. The only thing that seems to work is redeploying the original image and reconfiguring. What is going on here? And more importantly, how do I make it stop!?!? Group Policy Infrastructure Failed 7/21/2004 10:58:01 AM Group Policy Infrastructure failed due to the error listed below. The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted. Note: Due to the GP Core failure, none of the other Group Policy components processed their policy. Consequently, status information for the other components is not available. Additional information may have been logged. Review the Policy Events tab in the console or the application event log for events between 7/21/2004 10:58:01 AM and 7/21/2004 10:58:01 AM. Group Policy Infrastructure failed due to the error listed below.   The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.   Note: Due to the GP Core failure, none of the other Group Policy components processed their policy. Consequently, status information for the other components is not available.   Additional information may have been logged. Review the Policy Events tab in the console or the application event log for events between 7/21/2004 10:58:01 AM and 7/21/2004 10:58:01 AM.   Which reveals the following: Date: 7/21/2004 Source: Useenv Time: 10:58:01 AM Category: None Type: Error Event ID: 1054 User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: ROSEN-LAB2-13 Description: Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network. (The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.). Group Policy processing aborted.       :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)   Brenda L. Wilkins Microcomputer Specialist - Mac/PC Academic Computing East Stroudsburg University [EMAIL PROTECTED] (570) 422-3662               Lord, please help me to be the person my dog thinks I am.