Having spent hours going through all articles, newsgroups etc, I am totally stuck

One policy does have adm folder under sysvol, the other doesn't. As there has been no configuration of GPO, can I just copy the folder over

The error I am getting is unable to locate sysvol share. I have followed all of the kb articles in the threads here and all latest service packs/hotfixes are installed, although I haven't yet been able to find ntfrsutl.exe anywhere.

Don't manually copy anything from one sysvol folder to another, that will
only cause more FRS replication and will make things worse. You need to
concentrate on the root problem which seems to be a missing sysvol share.
Once this is corrected your FRS should hopefully sort itself out.

You may have seen these KB's before but I'll list them just in case. Have
you tried the troubleshooting steps here? If you have, where do you get
stuck and are there any error messages or relevant event log entries?

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=257338
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=327781

Run a dcdiag /v and netdiag /v on your domain controllers and post back any
errors, this might also yield some useful information as to the cause.

You can find ntfrsutl in the Windows 2000\2003 Support tools that can be
installed from the CD. I think it's also in the resource kit.

"Grant Stevenson" <grant@inetsoft.co.uk> wrote in message
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packs/hotfixes are installed, although I haven't yet been able to find
ntfrsutl.exe anywhere.

The guid number folders in \winnt\sysvol\sysvol\domain-name\policies should
be identical on all DC's, as should the contents. If the content of these
folders is different that would indicate an FRS problem. Is this what you
mean? What command were you running with ntfrsutl and I'll check it on my
network to see what the output should be. Remember that each DC also has a
GUID in DNS, perhaps this is what is being reported.

One thing to check, in your Policies folder do you have any folders that
include _NTFRS in the folder name?

"Grant Stevenson" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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computers, I noticed that those policy giuds don't seem to correspond to
anything reported in ntfrsutl - should they, and to which?

Posted this reply once about 30 mins ago but still hasn't appeared so I apologise if it does now;

Thanks Simon

I have followed the kb articles and have no errors, and there are no errors in event logs, however..

I have noticed that the guid's for the 2 policies listed in active directory users and computers snap in do not seem to match any of those in the output from ntfrsutil ds. Should they, and if so which, and what can be done to resolve this?

The guid's are identical on pdc and bdc in \winnt\sysvol\sysvol\domain-name\policies
There are no folders named _ntfrs

I ran ntfrsutl ds "nameofdc" against both. What I am saying is that none of the guid's appearing in the results correspond to the guid's appearing in \winnt\sysvol\sysvol\domain-name\policies.

I suggest downloading the Group Policy Management Console:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
Group Policy Management Console with Service Pack 1

you should read the white paper:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...mc/gpmcwp.mspx
Administering Group Policy with the GPMC


GMPC has some nice features that will allow you to check the consistancy of
your Group Policies across your entire domain.

tx

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the output from ntfrsutil ds. Should they, and if so which, and what can be
done to resolve this?

This package will not install on 2000 server

I'm tring to find a white paper on how to use GPMC to triage the group
policy failures... but having no luck. There should be a tool which you
can run that will search through AD extract all the group policies and then
check the sysvol share of all your Domain controllers to ensure the group
policy objects are configured properly that comes with GPMC.msc

tx

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