NTP issues on DCs set to NT5DS

I ran into an issue this morning with a pair of Windows 2003 Server DCs that were set to sync their clocks using NT5DS (which is the default and means they should sync from the domain hierarchy, which for DCs is often the PDC emulator). They kept logging the following error in the System Log: The time provider NtpClient was unable to find a domain controller to use as a time source....

2012-01-24 · 2 min · Adam