Authoritative Time Server Setup

[Guest]

Hello all.

I am trying to setup an Authoritative time server on my only Domain
controller for my network clients. I attempted to follow the guide listed
here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=216734
however my problem is that when I get to step #3, I do not have a
ReliableTmeSource entry in my registry. Nor do I have NtpServer in my
registry as listed in Step #5.

Thanks for any help!

P.S. I apologize for the double post

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Did you start by setting the server to a NTP server?

For Windows 2000, the command would be:

net time /setsntp:fqdn.server.name

 

[Dave Patrick]

Both of those are optional entries.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q223184/

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:
| Hello all.
|
| I am trying to setup an Authoritative time server on my only Domain
| controller for my network clients. I attempted to follow the guide listed
| here:
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=216734
| however my problem is that when I get to step #3, I do not have a
| ReliableTmeSource entry in my registry. Nor do I have NtpServer in my
| registry as listed in Step #5.
|
| Thanks for any help!
|
| P.S. I apologize for the double post

 

[Guest]

Hey guys and thanks for the quick reply.

I went through the steps again on the website I gave a link to. I got to the
last step which is to go to a client computer and open a command prompt and
type: w32tm -s to reset the time against the time server. It returned an RPC
to local server returned 0x0
In step 5 I also replaced "Peers" with time.nist.gov.

I am not sure how to tell if what I setup is working. Is there a way I can
check?
Sorry for the n00bness also.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

If the time service is having problems, it will post a message to the event
logs.

 

[Guest]

For my Windows 2000 systems I believe everything is working OK. The NTP
server hasn't given any Event Log warnings or errors relating to w32time,
NTP, etc. The only issue I am having is with the Windows XP/2003 client
systems. When I do a NET TIME on those XP/2003 systems, it points to the NTP
server, but some(not all) systems are off sync with the NTP server. As you
know, w32tm -s gives an unrecognized command on XP/2003 systems.

I guess my question is if the all the systems are pointing to the correct
NTP server on my network as the main NET TIME server, will the client
eventually update if the "Period" registry entry on the NTP server is set to
"24" (I am thinking "24" means every 24 hours)?

Once again, I apologize for the n00bness of my questions.

 

[Guest]

Also, if I run the command w32tm /resync /rediscover on a Windows XP/2003
system, I will only get a timeout and the message: The computer did not
resync because no time data was available.