Group Policies may not be applied and error messages similar to the following messages may be recorded in the Application log in Event Viewer:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 4/7/2000
Time: 4:25:40 AM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: MYCOMPUTER
Description: Windows cannot access the registry information at \\mydomain.com\sysvol\mydomain.com\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\Machine\registry.pol with (51).
Event Type: Error
Event Source: SceCli
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 4/7/2000
Time: 4:30:46 AM
User: N/A
Computer: MYCOMPUTER
Description: Security policy cannot be propagated. Cannot access the template. Error code = 3. \\mydomain.com\sysvol\mydomain.com\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\Machine\Microsoft\Windows NT\SecEdit\GptTmpl.inf.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 4/7/2000
Time: 4:30:46 AM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: MYCOMPUTER
Description: The Group Policy client-side extension Security was passed flags (17) and returned a failure status code of (3).
CAUSE
The \\Active Directory Domain Name\Sysvol share is a special share that requires the distributed file system (Dfs) client to make a connection. If the Dfs client is disabled, the error messages are generated.
RESOLUTION
Check the following registry value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Mup
DisableDFS: REG_DWORD: range: 0 or 1
0 = enabled; 1 = disabled
Default: 0
Make sure that the value is set to 0, enabling the Dfs client. Also, File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks must be enabled on the interface.