SYSVOL not replicating

Hi,

I'm running a AD-domain with 3 Win2k-servers.

One of my DC's died because of harddrive problems. I replaced the disks
with new ones and restored the system from backup.

Everything but the SYSVOL replication (what i know of) is working. If i
add a new user on the newly restored DC, it will replicate without
problems in the AD.

I've noticed this problem since i made some changes to a grouppolicy
that didn't apply to some users. I can see that the content on two of my
DC's are matching, but not on the third (the one that got restored).

Netdiag is showing no errors whatsoever on any of the DC's, neither does
DCDiag.

If i test to create a directory on the DC that is "faulty", it won't
replicate to the others.

If i do the same on the other two, it replicates to each other, but not
to the "faulty" one.

There's no logs showing any error on the DC's, i've tried restarting the
ntfrs service with no luck.

Does anyone know what i can do to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance

/ Martin

Martin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running a AD-domain with 3 Win2k-servers.
>
> One of my DC's died because of harddrive problems. I replaced the disks
> with new ones and restored the system from backup.
>
> Everything but the SYSVOL replication (what i know of) is working. If i
> add a new user on the newly restored DC, it will replicate without
> problems in the AD.
>
> I've noticed this problem since i made some changes to a grouppolicy
> that didn't apply to some users. I can see that the content on two of my
> DC's are matching, but not on the third (the one that got restored).
>
> Netdiag is showing no errors whatsoever on any of the DC's, neither does
> DCDiag.
>
> If i test to create a directory on the DC that is "faulty", it won't
> replicate to the others.
>
> If i do the same on the other two, it replicates to each other, but not
> to the "faulty" one.
>
> There's no logs showing any error on the DC's, i've tried restarting the
> ntfrs service with no luck.
>
> Does anyone know what i can do to solve this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance

FYI: Now i've run Sonar to check the status of the File Replication
Services. The output is shown below:

DC1: SYSVOLShared = Not a junction
DC2: SYSVOLShared = Ok
DC3: SYSVOLShared = Ok

Apparently there's a problem with one of the DC's.

What would be the next step to do?

Thank you

Martin wrote:

> FYI: Now i've run Sonar to check the status of the File Replication
> Services. The output is shown below:
>
> DC1: SYSVOLShared = Not a junction
> DC2: SYSVOLShared = Ok
> DC3: SYSVOLShared = Ok
>
> Apparently there's a problem with one of the DC's.
>
> What would be the next step to do?

Followup:

I've installed Ultrasound and done some tests with it. All connections
between the 3 DC's are working as it should, but i get one error message
on Ultrasound from one of the DC:

"SYSVOL does not contain junction point. Please follow
http://support.microsoft.com?id=327781"

Unfortunately that KB is unavailable.

I've tried to manually create the junction point with the program "linkd":

"linkd C:\winnt\sysvol\sysvol\my_domain c:\winnt\sysvol\domain"

All i get is the following:

"Cannot create a link at: C:\winnt\sysvol\sysvol\my_domain"

Anyone?

Thank you

How to rebuild the Sysvol tree
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;315457

"Martin" wrote:

> Martin wrote:
>
> > FYI: Now i've run Sonar to check the status of the File Replication
> > Services. The output is shown below:
> >
> > DC1: SYSVOLShared = Not a junction
> > DC2: SYSVOLShared = Ok
> > DC3: SYSVOLShared = Ok
> >
> > Apparently there's a problem with one of the DC's.
> >
> > What would be the next step to do?
>
> Followup:
>
> I've installed Ultrasound and done some tests with it. All connections
> between the 3 DC's are working as it should, but i get one error message
> on Ultrasound from one of the DC:
>
> "SYSVOL does not contain junction point. Please follow
> http://support.microsoft.com?id=327781"
>
> Unfortunately that KB is unavailable.
>
> I've tried to manually create the junction point with the program "linkd":
>
> "linkd C:\winnt\sysvol\sysvol\my_domain c:\winnt\sysvol\domain"
>
> All i get is the following:
>
> "Cannot create a link at: C:\winnt\sysvol\sysvol\my_domain"
>
> Anyone?
>
> Thank you
>

Mark wrote:

> How to rebuild the Sysvol tree
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;315457

Hi Mark,

I resolved the issue earlier this morning by moving the location of the
SYSVOL tree:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842162

Thanks anyway.

/ Martin