2K3 shares going offline 3 or 4 times a day ...

[rshepherd@chiyoda-usa.com]

.... usually requiring server reboots. Windows 2003 Server Enterprise
R2. SP 2. Single server environment with Exchange as well.

Started Monday night. Clients start loosing access to shares and then
Exchange becomes unreachable as well. Server remains pingable.

The only thing I keep seeing is:

Event 1030

"Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects. Check the
event log for possible messages previously logged by the policy engine
that describes the reason for this."

and

Event 1058

Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini for GPO
CN={6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9},CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=<doman
redacted>,DC=local. The file must be present at the location <\\<doman
redacted>.local\sysvol\<doman redacted>.local\Policies
\{6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9}\gpt.ini>. (Configuration
information could not be read from the domain controller, either
because the machine is unavailable, or access has been denied. ).
Group Policy processing aborted.

There is a fantastic KB article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908370/en-us
Unfortunately, none of the fixes apply. I am on the current SP. And
none of the workarounds are doable (ICF/ICS or RRAS are currently not
enabled. NAT driver is already disabled).

 

[rshepherd@chiyoda-usa.com]

Re: 2K3 shares going offline 3 or 4 times a day ...

Just a follow-up on the fix. I cleared out Event Logs and my Back-up
Exec job logs (which were particularly long) and the problem went
away.

On Jul 6, 10:29 am, rsheph...@chiyoda-usa.com wrote:
> ... usually requiring server reboots. Windows 2003 Server Enterprise
> R2. SP 2. Single server environment with Exchange as well.
>
> Started Monday night. Clients start loosing access to shares and then
> Exchange becomes unreachable as well. Server remains pingable.
>
> The only thing I keep seeing is:
>
> Event 1030
>
> "Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects. Check the
> event log for possible messages previously logged by the policy engine
> that describes the reason for this."
>
> and
>
> Event 1058
>
> Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini for GPO
> CN={6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9},CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=<doman
> redacted>,DC=local. The file must be present at the location <\\<doman
> redacted>.local\sysvol\<doman redacted>.local\Policies
> \{6AC1786C-016F-11D2-945F-00C04fB984F9}\gpt.ini>. (Configuration
> information could not be read from the domain controller, either
> because the machine is unavailable, or access has been denied. ).
> Group Policy processing aborted.
>
> There is a fantastic KB article athttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/908370/en-us
> Unfortunately, none of the fixes apply. I am on the current SP. And
> none of the workarounds are doable (ICF/ICS or RRAS are currently not
> enabled. NAT driver is already disabled).