Events 1030, 1058, and policies mysteriously reverting back

JD · Guest

There are actually two issues and an observation here:

issue #1: We have disabled the XP firewall as part of an OU policy we
have applied to all the workstation OU's and it works great! However,
we started noticing that some computers in the OU had the firewall
turned on. After looking into the situation, we noticed a sporatic
number of 1030 and 1058 errors in the event log of these workstations,
which clearly indicate a problem with policy application. I've read a
lot of things on the internet about these errors including issues with
the DFS client, DNS configuration problems, and other things that were
remedied by XP SP2 - but I've confirmed these things are correct.

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issue #2: on some machines (these seem to correlate with those that
are having issue #1), we receive the error: INFO: The User "domain
\username" does not have RSOP data.

I have confirmed that this does -not- occur when logging on as the
local admin, only when logging on as a domain user.

I've also confirmed that when we -do- get this error, we always get
errors 1030 and 158 simultaneously in the log.

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observation:

there -was- a time where these workstations did correctly apply the
policies and the firewall -was- disabled. So does the inability of the
workstation to process policies cause some settings to revert back to
the default value?? I would have thought that once the value was set
in the policy, it would stay that way until changed by another policy.

Thank You!!!

<JD>