I just installed a brand new instance of small business server 2003. At the
moment, the DC is the only machine in the domain. I and am getting the
following group policy errors in the event log:
"Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini for GPO
cn={6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9},cn=policies,cn=system,DC=RisingSta
rphoto,DC=local. The file must be present at the location
<\\RisingStarphoto.local\sysvol\RisingStarphoto.local\Policies\{6AC1786C-016
F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9}\gpt.ini>. (Windows cannot find the network path.
Verify that the network path is correct and the destination computer is not
busy or turned off. If Windows still cannot find the network path, contact
your network administrator. ). Group Policy processing aborted.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at "
After further investigation, I realize that I can't create a DFS root or
create a DFS share. When creating a DFS root, I get the following error:
"The following error occurred while creating DFS root on server
risingdco1.risingstarphoto.local: RPC server is unavailable"
Both the "Remote Procedure Call" and "Remote Procedure Call Locator"
services are running.
If anybody has any suggestions, It would be greatly appreciated. I found a
KB article referencing the "group policy" error, but the fix required
changing registry entries that don't exist on this machine.
Thanks much.
David