System Clock

[mtorpy]

I am not able to get into my system clock through the control panel or system tray. Message says "you do not have proper privilege level to change the system time", I can get to it using the LAN admin login and I am an administrator on the machine. Seems weird to me any suggestions?

 

[glegg]

It could be one of two things. First, is you domain a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain? if so, someone with domain/enterprise admin rights may have set the (default) domain Group Policy to allow only domain and enterprise admins to set the system time. This can be found by editing the GPO and going to Computer Configuration> Windows Settings> Security Settings> Local Policies> User Rights. I think that the default for the domain setting is Domain/Enterprise Admins, Administrators and Power Users but you can remove and add user groups to your liking. Even if the local machine policy allows Admins and Power Users, the default domain policy would win out, especially if the no override option was set. The same may be true if there is a site GPO or a GPO on the OU in which the W2K Pro machine lives that defines who may and may not set the system time. The other possibility is that you're in a NT 4.0 domain and working on a W2k Pro machine with the local machine policy set to only allow domain/eneterprise admins. The settings can be found by following the same path through the local machine policy (found in Adminstrative Tools).