Assuming that I apply a Group Policy (PC Local Policies) to the domain controller can anyone give me a reason why none of my clients accept it. There is undoubtedly a lot I do not understand about Group policy so any help would be appreciated.

If you apply a local group policy to the domain controller, isn't that just applicable to the server itself? I've never set up group policies and I'm sitting at home without access to a DC at the moment but I'm pretty sure that you have to assign clients to the group that you want to apply the policy to.

Maybe there's two screens for group policies - one that's just for the server and another for policies to propogate through the domain to the clients?

What version of Windows Server are you running? NT, 2000 or 2003? Are you using Active Directory?

You sir are correct ( I think). Thank you. I applied group policy to the domain and manually added the DNS server name to each client (The system is set up on DHCP so it wasn't there before) and things worked almost wonderfully. I now have one little glitch...that the church website (which is hosted externally) doesn't show up on any client. I can access any other website just not ours. So...I am not sure why adding a server name to the client causes this. It doesn't happen when a system is set up statically that I know of. Any thoughts. Thanks again.

Win 2000 server
Active Directory

That's weird? The site is definitely hosted externally on another company's server?

If you know the IP address of your external web server, perhaps you could enter the web site address with the IP address rather than the domain name?

Can you still access the church web site from the Win2000 server without problems?

Well, just so you would know if you ever have this problem. I put everything back the way it was and added a "hosts" file to the client boot up with the IP address and server/domain name and everything works just peachy. Group policy is working. There are no error events that the server couldn't come up with name of the client and the web site works. Funny what a tiny little file can do. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the update