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Computer GPO's not being applied 1

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mikiemov

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Morning all, hopefully you can help me and apologies for the long post

I am the network admin for an office with 60 XP Pro pc's with a mix of 2000/2003 servers.

All pc's pickup their settings via GPO fine, except a new one I have received (xp pro SP2). I am setting up this pc for imaging, however it is not picking up computer GPO's on bootup. It presents the Ctrl-alt-del very quickly and eventid 1054

"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" is logged.

If I log in as an ordinary user the user GPO's are applied fine..and If i run gpupdate/ force Computer & User GPO's are applied OK.

The pc gets its IP address using DHCP, as do all the pc's in the office...

Any ideas ??
 
Managed to fix it myself !! Details below

CAUSE
The problem occurs because link status fluctuates as the network adapter (also known as the network interface card, or NIC) driver initializes and as the network adapter hardware negotiates a link with the network infrastructure. The Group Policy application stack executes before the negotiation process is completed and can fail because of the absence of a valid link.
WORKAROUND
You may be able to work around this problem by disabling the "Media Sensing" feature in Windows. For additional information about how to disable Media Sense, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
239924 How to Disable Media Sense for TCP/IP in Windows

If you disable Media Sense, and if you cannot join an Active Directory domain or download group policies, make sure that you are running the most current drivers for your network adapter. If you are already running the most current drivers for your network adapter, the only workaround currently available is to switch to a different network adapter.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section of this article.
Network adapter manufacturers may implement workarounds for this problem in their drivers. Microsoft has confirmed that some of these workarounds can cause network adapters to incorrectly report their link speed. As a result, programs that perform downloads from the network, monitor network performance, or do load balancing and packet scheduling (QoS) may not work as expected.
 
I just noticed the replies for my thread. Thanks a lot guys.
I solve the problems on the systems that ate directly attached to a cisco swithes by enableing fast port and set the port and teh nic to 100 full duplex, however i have soem machines connected to a regular 3com hubs and i am still having the problem. I'll try the mikiemov solution and let you know.
Thanks
Juruk
 
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