Time Server sync setup 1

[chosen1]

I'm trying to set up my Windows NT4 PDC to sync up with an outside time server. So any workstation in my domain can pull the time from my PDC.

My question is how to go about doing the PDC time sync with an outside time server?

Thanks
-Phil

 

[Timebomb]

Although I think there is a command that allows you do this, I don't know how it would work with an external time server. A program I found to be very handy for this is "about time". It can be found at:

http://www.arachnoid.com/abouttime/

It is by the same person who created Arachonophilia web page designer. It requires MS IE 4.0 or higher be loaded. You can choose one of several external time servers. You can also set it to go out to the web and set the time every x minutes. Ours is set to 720, or every 12 hours. You can also load it on other servers, and set them to set their time to the PDC using this. We then added the line
net time \\PDCHOSTNAME /set /y
to our login script to allow it to our workstations to set their time to the host. Best part is, About Time is careware. Read about it on their web page.

Hope this helps Tom Backus
Network Administrator
Hitchcock Industries
Bloomington, Minnesota.
backust@hitchcockusa.com

 

[JimInKS]

I am just starting to play with the Microsoft service w32time for doing this:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...net/prodtechnol/winntas/downloads/W32TIME.asp

I have it setup on an NT workstation and it seems to be working OK.

To set the time on workstations I use "net time \\server_name /SET /Y" in a logon script. The only catch to this is that if the account on the local machine does not have enough privileges this command will fail.