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by pgcarter

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I'm using Windows 2003 server on a small windows 2000 network. I need to lock down one user account because it is a public computer and we need a default user logon that is restricted. I had the group policy and mandatory profile working on all the stations until the servers hard drive failed. So I changed the hard drive and reinstalled. Now I can no longer get the group policy to effect any of the work stations. I took a workstation off the domain, and then rejoined it, still nothing. The profile works, but it is still using the old policy. Is there a way to make the workstations use the new policy without network wide reinstall? How do I get rid of the old one?

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by ewgny

When you say reinstalled, do you mean from a backup, or a fresh install. Try un-joining a workstation from the domain, and rejoin it. (delete the existing workstations computer object in AD Users & Computers before rejoining.
If you did a fresh install, you will have to rejoin all of your workstations again.

Most likely your workstation is not authenticating properly.
When Group policy fails 99% of the time it is due to DNS. IPconfig /all the workstation and make sure your internal DNS islisted.

by pgcarter

I think you may be right, because we have a hardware router doing dhcp and dns, but it did work before. I'll try some things and get back to you. I might have to wait till Saturday though so I don't have to take everyone offline to experiment.

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