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As a project in my networking class, I've been asked to create and apply group policies to user groups on a domain. I have a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition server computer, and a Windows 2000 Professional client.
I have created the group policy successfully however, I am stuck on applying the policy. I've applied it to the group of the client and the client's login name itself and neither is working.
In MMC, 've made a new policy, and for the user group I've allowed the "Allow Group Policy" permission for the user and the group of the user however it is not taking effect when the client logs in.
I've also used gpupdate and restarted both the clients and the server with no luck.
Could anyone give me some possible problems and solutions?
Thanks
What kind of policy are you trying to setup, user configuration or computer?
If it is a user config. say for example folder redirection, you would need to have a user in a OU/container (whatever you prefer to call it) and link that policy to that OU.
If it was a computer config. you would need to have the computer in a OU, which in your case I'd just use the default Computers OU in AD and link the policy you created to it.
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User configuration, could you go into more detail about what you're talking about? I don't have the server computer in front of me to search around through it.
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Alright in Active Directory Users and Computers there are a bunch of OU's (organizational units) like Users, Computers, Domain Controllers, to name a few. You can create your own OU's for organization in AD. So I would create a new OU by going to Action > New > Organizational Unit. You can name that OU whatever you want.
You already have a User in AD Users and Computers, so just move that User into the OU you create. Then link the Group policy to that OU, which I think you already know how to do.
You can try some of these commands in the cmd prompt gpresult /User <USERNAME> and I can see you already tried the gpupdate.
Also try googling Group Policy to get some more info.
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@BScott: I created an OU named "regular users" within my domain, moved my user "1" into the OU and gave the OU my group policy, used gpupdate and gpresults and it still didn't apply the group policy.
The output of "gpresult /user 1" was :
INFO: The user "1" does not have RSOP data.(1 being the login username)
@Jennifer: We're learning basic networking and creating group policies, active directories and domain controllers, etc. Our teacher has us use documents and google resources to learn things, as he claims it is more valuable than us watching him step-by-step it.
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Hmmm...what policy are you trying to apply to the user?
Also use the gpresult on the client not the DC.
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You could possibly have an error in your DNS setup which is the reason why your policy wont apply to the user.
Can you ping the server from the client and the client from the server?
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@Bscott, yeah I assumed it was a connectivity problem and found that for a short time it was (client couldn't ping server), anyways I moved to an XP client and the client and server can ping each other with <1ms response time (probably as expected).
When I logged on to some of the accounts that are in the OU on the server computer, the policies worked (in the domain, on the local computer), but when I tried it on the client, after gpupdate and gpresult /user, I received an error message from the client:
INFO: The policy object does not exist.
After a bit of googling it sounds like a DNS error, could anyone confirm this? If it is, is it best that I reinstall my DC/DNS?
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