February 2nd, 2010 by Dave de Rijder

Situation:1 DC, 1 PRO, 1 DDC and 3 winxp

Problem on the DC, in the evenviewer you see the two nex events:

Event ID: 1097
Description:
Windows cannot find the machine account, The clocks on the client and server machines are skewed. .

Event ID: 1030
Description:
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.

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config\Parameters

1. In the right pane, right-click NtpServer, and then click Modify.
2. In Value data:, type <your ntp time server> in the Value data box, and then click OK.
3. Quit Registry Editor.
4. At the command prompt, type the following command to restart the Windows Time service, and then press ENTER:

net stop w32time && net start w32time

on the client do the same ore set the NtpServer Value data to the IP adres of the DC.