Cannot change workstation's time

[cooperchien]

I have an active directory with one 2000 server. I learned that by default all workstations in the domain will sync the time with the domain controller. However, my workstations always has the wrong time. I used many commands like w32tm and net time but nothing worked. My workstations always boot with the wrong time. Does anyone what to do here? I want to ensure all workstation will have the same time like the server.
Thank you for help.

 

[kmkeshav]

If all of your workstations have this problem, the time source for the domain (the Domain Controller holding PDC emulator role is set as the time source for the domain by default) probably should have some problem. Restart the appropriate services in this server and make sure you have set correct time in this server.

Please refer to the following URLs for more details:

How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows 2000:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216734/

How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server 2003:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042

How to synchronize the time with the Windows Time service in Windows XP:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307897&sd=tech

Hope this will be useful.

-Keshav

 

[pgaliardo]

What O/S are the clients running. If it's Win2K and XP, then yes, they should sync automatically and you should follow Keshav's suggestions if you are having problems.

 

[cooperchien]

I checked my 2000 domain controller's setting and I could not find the registry key of ReliableTimeSource. Maybe that is the problem. But how can I add the key?
I run winXP for all the workstations.