On your Windows XP-based computer, group policies may not be applied as you expect. When you look at the Application Log of the Event Viewer, you see error data similar to the following: 

 

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1058
Date: 2/8/2002
Time: 7:25:40 AM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: MYCOMPUTER

Description: Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini for GPO
CN={31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9},CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=lcds,DC=lab
The file must be present at the location \\lcds.lab\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}
(Access is denied) Group Policy processing aborted.

 

This problem may exists when the IntelliMirror Client (Windows 2000 / XP / 2003) try to browse the SYSVOL structure.

 

To do this, it's clear that the DFS Client and DFS Server must be operational both!

 

To learn more, click the link below:

 

Thanks to Jacques Cariou (a french technical Windows support team @ Nextec Systems)!