Set time on other servers from PDC

[gonko]

Hello, we have a number of servers running NT4. At the moment I have an AT job on each one running net time at 8am each morning. Is there 1 job I can put on the Time server we have to update all the servers. I know you can but am just not sure of the syntax

Thanks

 

[Grenage]

I am not aware of a method of updating an NT4 server remotely.

Where I am at the moment one server updates via "atomic clock" software and the other machines/servers update via login script from that server.

 

[gonko]

Indeed , that's what we have. Our main server gets it's time from the Atomic Clock and the users get the time from the script. However we have about 23 BDC's which need to be sync'd with the main Server. He have an At job on each server to set the time from the main one, buts surely there could be one batch job to run on the main one to update all these?

Regards

 

[Grenage]

Not that I am aware of I am afraid. There may perhaps be some third party client/server software that does it, I have not come across it before though.

Russell.

 

[gonko]

Ok, thanks for your time....

 

[RichardMoran]

I don't know if this 3rd party tool is any good, but it seems to do what you wanted.

http://www.greyware.com/software/domaintime/

Rik

 

[rdroske]

The windows time service will do all that itself if you configure it correctly (see timeserv.exe and .ini)

Basically you configure one machine to go to an NTP server and the rest to update from it.

You may want to look at upgarding them all top w32time while you are at it as if you have 2000 machines (or will have) you'll need to do it anyways.

 

[ChrisRAnthony]

Try Tardis from

http://www.kaska.demon.co.uk/.

This takes time from the Internet and can then "send" it to a num,ber of servers

 

[rdroske]

There is really no need for an add on for this.