Desktop folders do not open after default Domain policies ..

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.group_policy (More info?)

Problem solved, embarrasingly enough, everything was working exactly
how I set it up to work. I had users on the terminal server set up so
they could not access Drives A, C, or D, so when they clicked on
anything that was saved there ("My Documents", any folders saved,
etc.), they got the error.

What's interesting is my user account, which resides in a separate OU,
picked up the same policy and applied it locally. While I do log on to
the terminal server, I had the policy set to apply to the terminal
server users OU, not the server itself (which I have changed).

After digging around for awhile I got everything straightened out.  

Thanks-
Brian

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.group_policy (More info?)

Hi Brian,

Are you using roaming profiles and redirecting the folders to the server?
Looks like this is permission issue, and you can dig into the permission to
see what happened.

br,
Denis

<bpanders71@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1124731019.865045.113190@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> I recently discovered my default domain policy and default domain
> controller policy were missing from my sysvol share on my win2k DC. I
> used the recreatedefpol.exe utility to recreate the policies over the
> weekend. Everything seemed as it should, numerous errors I was
> receiving in my application log went away and I figured all was well.
>
> When I came in this morning, I discovered not only had everyone been
> prompted to change their passwords, but if there was a folder on the
> desktop, trying to open it would resolve in "This Operation has been
> cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please
> contact your system administrator". This apparently happens with the
> my documents folder as well, and even for me, a domain admin. Along
> with this, if I right click on Start and try to select Open or Explore,
> I get the same thing, but am able to get to windows explorer by using
> the start key + E.
>
> Opening folders on the desktop was fine before the recreation of the
> default policies, what would have caused this to occur? I looked
> through the policies, but couldn't find anything that would cause this.
>
> Thanks-
> Brian
>