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Time Syncing

Originally posted by -l-Z3K3-l-
how do you guys sync the time on a windows network?
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With XP, go to the Date & Time control panel, click on the Internet Time tab, and select (or enter) and NTP server of your choice.
 
It would be helpful to know what is on the network such as how many clients and servers as well as the Operating Systems being used.

Syncing across the network can be done quite easily, however how you sync those computers depends on what you have.
 
Windows 2000 and Windows XP Pro machines that are members of a Windows 2000 AD domain will automatically sync their time with a domain controller.

To get a Windows 2000 domain controller to sync up with an outside source, open a command prompt and type:

net time /setsntp:<list of names or IP address of SNTP servers>

A couple of choices for time servers:

- time.nist.gov
- ntp1.usno.navy.mil

You can change how often the server syncs up by editing the registry under HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NTPClient and changing the value for SpecialPollInterval. The default on this for Windows Server 2003 is 604800 seconds, which is every 7 days.

For Windows 98 clients in a Windows NT/2000/2003 domain, run a login script with the command:

net time /set /yes.

You might need to specify a server name:

net time \\mytimeserver /set /yes

If you don't have a domain controller:

On your Windows 2000 clients, do the "net time /setsntp:time.nist.gov" once on each client, and they will sync up individually.

On Windows XP clients: you can double-click the system-tray clock, and pick the time server to synchronize with from a drop-down list. You can add NTP servers to the list just by typing their names in.

On Windows 98 clients, you'll need to use third party software. You can get some good free software from the US government: http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/its.htm . Install the software and set it to run automatically.
 
All the above are good.

Just another option that I personnally like is nettime. http://nettime.sourceforge.net/

It is a free NTP sync client and/or server.

One thing I have noticed with XP time sync is that if you use it not only is it a client but a server as well. Does anyone know how to turn off the server aspect of it, without firewalling it?
 
Go to Run and type gpedit.msc Under Admin Templates / Network / Windows Time Service. You can alter the server and client aspects there. Also you could try services.msc and see if it is there. I can't remember it is or isn't.
 
well in work i'm using the net time command on the users login script

but as the machines have a policy restricting them , the command doesn't seem to run successfully

so the user is restricted from changing the time therefore the script also fails.

anyone know any way around this?


o our domain controller is an NT4 server
(which doesn't have the Win2k w32time service)
i'm using a combo of WinNT, Win2000 and Win98 PC's
 
Originally posted by -l-Z3K3-l-
well in work i'm using the net time command on the users login script

but as the machines have a policy restricting them , the command doesn't seem to run successfully

so the user is restricted from changing the time therefore the script also fails.

anyone know any way around this?


o our domain controller is an NT4 server
(which doesn't have the Win2k w32time service)
i'm using a combo of WinNT, Win2000 and Win98 PC's
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Well one way is to install a Time Sync app on the machine, that can run with the correct privileges as a service.

Course I do not know much about windows scripting, however I would be interested in a sudo way to do that.

Another option would be to adjust the users priv. to allow them to change the time. This of course is probably not a preferred method though.
 
Originally posted by m1abram
Well one way is to install a Time Sync app on the machine, that can run with the correct privileges as a service.

Course I do not know much about windows scripting, however I would be interested in a sudo way to do that.

Another option would be to adjust the users priv. to allow them to change the time. This of course is probably not a preferred method though.
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i was trying something like that
i got a free program called NetTime that can run as a service.
problem is i can't get it to sync with any of my servers.

the only thing it picks up are WinXP machines?

whcih is wierd

i am running some Win2k servers aswell and yet this program doesn't pick them up
 
Originally posted by -l-Z3K3-l-
i was trying something like that
i got a free program called NetTime that can run as a service.
problem is i can't get it to sync with any of my servers.

the only thing it picks up are WinXP machines?

whcih is wierd

i am running some Win2k servers aswell and yet this program doesn't pick them up
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I use NetTime also, the auto-config does not always work. Have you tried manually entering the time servers?
 
Originally posted by m1abram
I use NetTime also, the auto-config does not always work. Have you tried manually entering the time servers?
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yup

using the IP and the server name and it just fails
the Windows Time service is runnign on the particular 2000 server i'm connecting to

what changes should i make to the 2000 server or should i make any? is there something i have to do to make the server advertise itself as a time server
 
Originally posted by -l-Z3K3-l-
yup

using the IP and the server name and it just fails
the Windows Time service is runnign on the particular 2000 server i'm connecting to

what changes should i make to the 2000 server or should i make any? is there something i have to do to make the server advertise itself as a time server
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Well I am not familiar with 2000 server, however make sure that the server is running an SNTP service. you can do a netstat -l to find out what ports it is listening on and should see one for NTP or 123.

Shit wait netstat -l might only work on Linux, not sure the netstat option in windows.

My guess is it is only handling the windows style time sync. I think you can make it respond to NTP requests also.
 
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