server 2003 help: event id 1030 & 1058

i have 2 new freshly installed 2003 servers - trying to finish them up.
when i go into "group policy management" and right click on "default domain policy" i get this error

"failed to open the group policy object. you may not have appropriate rights."
"the network path was not found"

then i go and check even viewer and this is what i get

event id 1030
Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects. Check the event log for possible messages previously logged by the policy engine that describes the reason for this.


event id 1058
Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini for GPO CN={31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9},CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=mimsdist,DC=local. The file must be present at the location <\\mimsdist.local\sysvol\mimsdist.local\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\gpt.ini>. (The network path was not found. ). Group Policy processing aborted.

BTW - i get the exact same error on both 2003 servers

for event id 1030 check out....
Linky

and for 1058 check out
Linky #2

Event Id is your friend as well as mine....

Hope that helps abit

the thing is, i am doing this on the primary DNS server, and it is also the domain controller.
i have DFS started

i am not doing anything from a workstation