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Im very new to all this. A lot of my understanding here probably sounds really stupid, so bear with me. Im building a small virtual network using VMware. Im doing this to practice and learn about subdomains, group policy, and security. When I try to enforce group policy on clients from either the parent domain or the subdomain dcs- nothing happens. I took down all the firewalls, made sure all the accept connections settings are checked on everything, but still no group policy. When I run dcdiag from the parent domain dc I get this: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Administrator>dcdiag Directory Server Diagnosis Performing initial setup: Trying to find home server... Home Server = WIN-HQKARU70IMV * Identified AD Forest. Done gathering initial info. Doing initial required tests Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\WIN-HQKARU70IMV Starting test: Connectivity ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV passed test Connectivity Doing primary tests Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\WIN-HQKARU70IMV Starting test: Advertising ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV passed test Advertising Starting test: FrsEvent ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV passed test FrsEvent Starting test: DFSREvent There are warning or error events within the last 24 hours after the SYSVOL has been shared. Failing SYSVOL replication problems may cause Group Policy problems. ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV failed test DFSREvent Starting test: SysVolCheck ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV passed test SysVolCheck Starting test: KccEvent ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV passed test KccEvent Starting test: KnowsOfRoleHolders ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV passed test KnowsOfRoleHolders Starting test: MachineAccount ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV passed test MachineAccount Starting test: NCSecDesc ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV passed test NCSecDesc Starting test: NetLogons ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV passed test NetLogons Starting test: ObjectsReplicated ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV passed test ObjectsReplicated Starting test: Replications ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV passed test Replications Starting test: RidManager ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV passed test RidManager Starting test: Services ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV passed test Services Starting test: SystemLog A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000003F6 Time Generated: 11/02/2011 09:25:48 Event String: Name resolution for the name _ldap._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sit es.batman.wilsonsdomain.net timed out after none of the configured DNS servers r esponded. A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000003F6 Time Generated: 11/02/2011 09:55:41 Event String: Name resolution for the name 1.10.168.192.in-addr.arpa timed out aft er none of the configured DNS servers responded. A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x00001695 Time Generated: 11/02/2011 09:55:51 Event String: Dynamic registration or deletion of one or more DNS records associat ed with DNS domain 'wilsonsdomain.net.' failed. These records are used by other computers to locate this server as a domain controller (if the specified domain is an Active Directory domain) or as an LDAP server (if the specified domain is an application partition). ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV passed test SystemLog Starting test: VerifyReferences ......................... WIN-HQKARU70IMV passed test VerifyReferences Running partition tests on : ForestDnsZones Starting test: CheckSDRefDom ......................... ForestDnsZones passed test CheckSDRefDom Starting test: CrossRefValidation ......................... ForestDnsZones passed test CrossRefValidation Running partition tests on : DomainDnsZones Starting test: CheckSDRefDom ......................... DomainDnsZones passed test CheckSDRefDom Starting test: CrossRefValidation ......................... DomainDnsZones passed test CrossRefValidation Running partition tests on : Schema Starting test: CheckSDRefDom ......................... Schema passed test CheckSDRefDom Starting test: CrossRefValidation ......................... Schema passed test CrossRefValidation Running partition tests on : Configuration Starting test: CheckSDRefDom ......................... Configuration passed test CheckSDRefDom Starting test: CrossRefValidation ......................... Configuration passed test CrossRefValidation Running partition tests on : wilsonsdomain Starting test: CheckSDRefDom ......................... wilsonsdomain passed test CheckSDRefDom Starting test: CrossRefValidation ......................... wilsonsdomain passed test CrossRefValidation Running enterprise tests on : wilsonsdomain.net Starting test: LocatorCheck ......................... wilsonsdomain.net passed test LocatorCheck Starting test: Intersite ......................... wilsonsdomain.net passed test Intersite C:\Users\Administrator> To check my roles I used netdom query fsmo: C:\Users\Administrator>netdom query fsmo Schema master WIN-HQKARU70IMV.wilsonsdomain.net Domain naming master WIN-HQKARU70IMV.wilsonsdomain.net PDC WIN-HQKARU70IMV.wilsonsdomain.net RID pool manager WIN-HQKARU70IMV.wilsonsdomain.net Infrastructure master WIN-HQKARU70IMV.wilsonsdomain.net The command completed successfully. C:\Users\Administrator> I think that looks right so I figure its something with my DNS based on the Dcdiag errors. (Again, sorry if I sound stupid.) This is the way I have my IPs and DNS setup: wilsonsdomain.net (parent domain) dc- IP 192.168.10.1 Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway 192.168.10.3 Preferred DNS 192.168.10.1 Alternate DNS Blank batman.wilsonsdomain.net (child domain) dc- IP 192.168.10.2 Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway 192.168.10.3 Preferred DNS 192.168.10.1 Alternate DNS Blank joker.batman.wilsonsdomain.net (client of child domain)- IP 192.168.10.5 Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway 192.168.10.3 Preferred DNS 192.168.10.2 Alternate DNS Blank Any help as to how I have this set up wrong would be much appreciated.