How to setup Windows 2003 as Internet Time Server

[mayB2morrow]

I am trying to do something which I thought would be really easy, but is proving not to be...

TO give you an overview...

We (my company) have a hosted web server, and a local in-house web-server. The hosted web server acts as a remote backup / redundancy for our local system.

The hosted webserver is on a domain, and as such, its time clock gets updated on a regular basis.

Our local webserver is not on a domain, and so its time clock does not get updated.

The times on the two servers need to be synchronised for our redundancy systems to work correctly.

I want to setup the hosted server as an Internet Time Server so that I can update the time of the local server with the time of the hosted server, via Windows server 2003's ability to update its clock via an Internet Time Server.

Both servers are Windows Server 2003.

Can anyone point me to some (simple) instructions on how to do this, as I seem to be struggling!!

I have tried various SNTP service software on the web-server, but cant get the local server to ge the time from the remote!

Help!!!

 

[jkupski]

Win2k and up already have a builtin SNTP server, so no need to install anything additional. I'm assuming you've already configured the local machine properly? (i.e. net time /setsntp:your.remote.server) What does the local machine's event log say (look for w32time.)

If you still fail, a good suggestion would be to point your local machine at whatever time source the remote domain is using.

 

[markdmac]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;816042

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[mayB2morrow]

Thanks for your help guys, and apologies for my donkey-ness in accidentally posting it in an Exchange forum.

I was trying to do it this way, but it just wasn't happening for me. Maybe I was being too lazy to sit and do it properly, but anyway, I think I have found a solution using a couple of nifty pieces of freeware.

If anyone is interested, this is exactly what I did (blogged it for future reference!)

http://maybetomorrow.co.uk/blog/more.php?id=122_0_1_0_M

Thanks for the tips though, much appreciated.

Phil M