pstraight

I've been having this same issue and hope it is related to the GPO settings like everyone else is saying. I am administering a Windows 2003 32bit SP2 machine. I only got hired a week ago and aparently the clocks here have always been about 12 minutes ahead of the real time. Anyway, the network administrators before me set the default domain policy to configure the "Configure the Windows NTP Client" and the "Enable WIndows NTP client" to be enabled. Obviously since our domain controllers were in the domain that this policy was being issued to, they are getting these settings as well. I went ahead and made an OU and put the domain controllers in there and enforced the "Default domain controllers policy" GPO so that should override any settings the default domain policy issues. Of course, the default domain controllers policy has all three of the time settings discussed here set as "not configured". I went ahead and did a gpupdate /force on the domain controller with the PDC fsmo role and then logged off and logged back on. The problem was that I was getting the same error. Is this something that I will have to restart the domain controller for all the settings of the enforced "default domain controllers policy" to take effect? I really don't want to restart this domain controller seeing as it is running DHCP and DNS. Thanks