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More info?)
I'm a little late getting back to this post, sorry for the
delay.
Actually I don't believe it's a networking problem,
because the same problem will occur when using policy
editor on the PDC itself. There are a few quirks about
this system however, the SYSVOL is located on
D:\winnt\sysvol when the system is actually on C:
The reason for this I think is because the C: is still in
FAT16
There's another thing I've noticed, after this error
certain settings in the policy will be lost, while others
will still remain. Settings in the Computer
Configuration/ADM/network settings get lost (such as WinXP
SP2 firewall settings) however in User/adm/control
panel/display settings will remain.
I hope I'm providing enough information, please let me
know if more would be required.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Brian-
>
>I suspect you may need to look at the network
configuration on the PDC
>Emulator, and/or network captures of the problem as it
occurs.
>
>If the PDC E is multihomed my first thought would be to
take a look at the
>binding order, and look for other possible clients.
>
>For the network capture I would be looking at the time
index of the "can not
>be accessed byt the system" recurrence. It could be a
lack of reply from
>the domain controller, or a slight drop of traffic or
something on the
>server side itself such as performance, configuration
(mentioned above) or
>something less expected.
>
>Please repost on what you find.
>--
>Tim Springston
>Microsoft Corporation
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>
>
>"Brian" <bkaler@adelphia.net> wrote in message
>news:0db901c4b532$a0b9f430$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> Does nobody want to touch this one? Please any input is
>> appreciated!
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>It starts out pretty normal, I can run group policy
>>>management from XP as domain admin, or from the PDC
>> itself
>>>(windows 2000 sp3) and start editing policy settings, I
>>>can usually set atleast 1 setting, however usually on
the
>>>2nd setting I edit, upon return I get "The Group Policy
>>>snapin was unable to save your changes due to the
>>>following error: The file can not be accessed by the
>>>system."
>>>
>>>Now the ADM file is on the PDC (but I've tried it on the
>>>XP machine as well). I've tried both a shared path and
>>>the default directory for ADM (/winnt/inf) but still I
>> get
>>>the same problem.
>>>
>>>The error seems simple enough, the ADM file is
>>>inaccessible (because I can change anything in the
>> Windows
>>>Settings/Software to my hearts content without any
>>>error). However it's clearly accessible!
>>>
>>>Some details,
>>>
>>>PDC
>>>Windows 2000 SP3
>>>FAT32 Partitions (thinking this has something to do with
>>>it)
>>>
>>>Policy ADM file:
>>>system.adm (windows xp sp2)
>>>
>>>let me know anything else I can offer that would be of
>>>assistance, thanks alot for any help.
>>>.
>>>
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