Configure Windows Server 2003 time source
We recently upgraded from NT 4.0 to 2003R2. My clients are all synchronized to the DC. How do I set the DC to snych to nist.gov? I was reading about PDC emulator, unsure if my dc is one and ran this command to set the time on the dc
net time /set:nist.gov0x1. Than ran the stop and start command for net time. The clients have no policy other than default w32 to agree with the dc. I set the poll to 15 minutes but my dc and clients are still of by 4 minutes. If the hardware clock is off, how do I stop it form looking at that for time?
Software/Hardware used:
xp pro, server 2003, vista, windows 7, IBM xseries server
Software/Hardware used:
xp pro, server 2003, vista, windows 7, IBM xseries server
ASKED:
February 12, 2010 9:34 PM
UPDATED:
February 15, 2010 5:09 PM
Answer Wiki:
Hi there are 2 articles <a href="http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6040425.html">here</a> and <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042">here</a> that should help you. They helped me when I was setting up time synchronisation on our network.
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I think I may have found the problem. I am going to try and change the time servers. Currently we cannot get any replies back from nist.gov, so i will attempt some other NTP servers we can get responses from and see if that works for us.