I have two sites that are having identical active
directory problems.

When I open Active Directory users and computers and try
to open the group pol tab on the root organisation I get
the following message:

The domain controller for group policy operations is not
available.................

When I try to open the Dial in tab on a user I get:

Could not load the dial-in profile for this user because:
the network path was not found.

In the application event log I have the following userenv
error:

Event ID: 1058
Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini.............

I also get the following DNS error, and DNS tests fail
when I run them:

Errors 4004 and 4015

DNS isn't working because it can't access active directory.

I am also having scheduled backup issues that may be
related.

I am very grateful for all and any insights into this
problem. I have searched the ms knowledgebase to no avail.

Regards

Bruce

Let's everyone hum the Active Directory mantra ...

The answer is DNS - the question is irrelivent.

It's pretty clear that either your DNS configuration is pretty badly
buggered or something underlying it is keeping it from doing its job.

Here's the fundamentals:

Ensure your DNS is running as a "dynamic DNS.

Ensure your DNS has representative SRV records for the domain controllers in
your domains

Ensure ALL clients and servers are pointing to the DNS holding the SRV
records *and* that there are no entries pointing to any NON-AD DNS servers.

Read, read, read, read, read ...

-ds

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