I have a Windows 2000 DC running both DHCP and DNS for my network. I also have about 30 XP machines that NEED to have group policies enforced on them. Here is what has been happening. On the XP clients, the group policy will not apply itself. I had thought that maybe it was because the domain policy was propegating down and overriding the OU policy, so I checkemarked the “no override” button, but to no avail. So, by just playing around a bit, I went into my network connection settings, into the TCPIP settings, and instead of assiging an IP AND DNS server automatically, I only had it assign the IP, and I typed in the IP address of my domain controller, which is also acting as my DNS server. This worked to apply the group policy, but now my internet access is gone from those XP client machines. But when I take out the DNS IP, I get internet, but no policy. Is there a setting in my DNS configuration that I am missing? I have both a “.” DNS zone and my “prep” zone… is this what is causing my problems? I have paused the “.” zone and tried applying the “prep” zone settings to the DNS settings on the xp clients, but that is not working. I have only just added the dns suffix to be “prep” on the clients… this does not seem to be working though. It is quite important that I get this working very soon, so any help that anyone can provide would be GREATLY appreciated.
THank you!
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