Connected over a slow link? GPO issue.

[Heebeejeebee]

Hi,

I have one machine that I use for testing/msi creation etc. that regularly gets re-imaged and until now has not had a problem.

It now refuses to have any software or policies deployed to it via GPO.

It's been freshly imaged, new ssid applied, joined the domain and happily picks up drive mappings and logon/logoff scripts. I ran gpresult and got the following:

Microsoft (R) Windows (R) XP Operating System Group Policy Result tool v2.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1981-2001

Created On 19/04/2007 at 14:46:50



RSOP results for [edited]\administrator on TESTBOX1 : Logging Mode
---------------------------------------------------------------------

OS Type:                     Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Configuration:            Member Workstation
OS Version:                  5.1.2600
Domain Name:                 [edited]
Domain Type:                 Windows 2000
Site Name:                   Default-First-Site-Name
Roaming Profile:             
Local Profile:               C:\Documents and Settings\administrator.[edited]
Connected over a slow link?: Yes


COMPUTER SETTINGS
------------------
    CN=TESTBOX1,OU=Machines,DC=[edited],DC=local
    Last time Group Policy was applied: 19/04/2007 at 14:26:03
    Group Policy was applied from:      N/A
    Group Policy slow link threshold:   500 kbps

    Applied Group Policy Objects
    -----------------------------
        N/A

    The following GPOs were not applied because they were filtered out
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
        Local Group Policy
            Filtering:  Not Applied (Empty)

    The computer is a part of the following security groups:
    --------------------------------------------------------
        BUILTIN\Administrators
        Everyone
        NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
        

USER SETTINGS
--------------
    CN=Administrator,OU=Network Admins,DC=[edited],DC=local
    Last time Group Policy was applied: 19/04/2007 at 14:46:13
    Group Policy was applied from:      logon.[edited].local
    Group Policy slow link threshold:   500 kbps

    Applied Group Policy Objects
    -----------------------------
        Network Admin Logon Scripts & Drive Maps
        Admin Policies
        
    The following GPOs were not applied because they were filtered out
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
        Local Group Policy
            Filtering:  Not Applied (Empty)

    The user is a part of the following security groups:
    ----------------------------------------------------
        Domain Users
        Everyone
        BUILTIN\Users
        BUILTIN\Administrators
        NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE
        NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
        LOCAL
        Schema Admins
        Enterprise Admins
        Domain Admins
        Group Policy Creator Owners

Now, the bit I'm concerned with is the "Connected over a slow link?: Yes" part. This naturaly stops certain things happening via GPO (software nstallions, redirects etc) but I don't understand why it's reporting this. The machine is new, has a ip reservation allocated and has always worked before.

I changed the AD settings for Slow Link Detection" to enabled and "0" (effectivly disabling it) but gpresult still shows it at the default of 500. I can ping the server and get a <1ms response. and can copy large files at great speed over the network.

The machine is now connected directly to the same gigabit switch that the server is plugged into and I even slapped in a new 3com gigabit card to see it was a fault NIC but there was no change.

Any ideas what to try next? DNS issue perhaps?

Cheers

HBJB

[Geoff]

This is a symptom of a network connectivity/capacity issue. I suggest you do some network monitoring to see what's going on (an ARP storm caused by a network loop is an obvious culprit).

The following KB article explains how slow link detection works.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/227260

[Heebeejeebee]

This is a symptom of a network connectivity/capacity issue. I suggest you do some network monitoring to see what's going on (an ARP storm caused by a network loop is an obvious culprit).

The following KB article explains how slow link detection works.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/227260

Thanks, (been to that page ). It's only this one machine that's affected. Some other PCs that have been setup today and yesterday pull the GPO items fine. It still does it when it's the only machine turned on.

Cheers

HBJB

[Geoff]

maybe the switch port is broken, or theres a cabling problem?

[mac_shinobi]

Latest NIC drivers ?

ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns

[Heebeejeebee]

maybe the switch port is broken, or theres a cabling problem?

Forgot to mention that I tried a new cable (tested) and plugged it into different ports and even different switches. I'm going to try the user environment debug mode tomorrow to see if I can extract any useful (read as understandable) info from it.

Latest drivers installed

Cheers

HBJB

[Friez]

we're getting a similar issue with another machine now (a laptop). Doesn't pull any of the GPO settings although gpresult says it does!

We gave up in the end with the original machine, it just doesn't do group policy! It USED to do it mind, but now... no.

For the record this laptop indicates that it is NOT connected over a slow link, so the issue must lie elsewhere. I find it particularly odd that some machines fail and the rest are fine.

I've also noticed that when its installing software every time it whizzes through a list (the software IS installed, but it seems like its attempting to do it again and then give up), thought that was a bit odd too.

Any ideas?

*stabs microsoft*