Strange time problems

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Harrison Midkiff

Hello:

About 3 weeks ago one of my DC and a application server reset there times by
10 hours. As I am sure you know this caused major problems with users
trying to connect to the servers to get resources. When users log in there
computers clocks should be updated by the DC that logs them in. On each of
my domain controllers I configured them by running the following command so
they would sync with a US Navy time server.

net time /setsntp:192.5.41.209

My logic is that all my DC's could sync with the time server and then my
clients would be updated by the DC that logged them in. Yesterday the time
issue popped up again. I have check the time zone on the server and
everything is configured correctly. Added additional logged to the server
via KB Q307937. I monitored one of my DC's adjust its time by almost 300
seconds then 30 minutes later adjust its time by 300 seconds again. I
stopped the time service on the server to avoid any problems.

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on?

Harrison Midkiff
 
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SaltPeter

Harrison Midkiff said:
Hello:

About 3 weeks ago one of my DC and a application server reset there times by
10 hours. As I am sure you know this caused major problems with users
trying to connect to the servers to get resources. When users log in there
computers clocks should be updated by the DC that logs them in. On each of
my domain controllers I configured them by running the following command so
they would sync with a US Navy time server.

net time /setsntp:192.5.41.209

My logic is that all my DC's could sync with the time server and then my
clients would be updated by the DC that logged them in. Yesterday the time
issue popped up again. I have check the time zone on the server and
everything is configured correctly. Added additional logged to the server
via KB Q307937. I monitored one of my DC's adjust its time by almost 300
seconds then 30 minutes later adjust its time by 300 seconds again. I
stopped the time service on the server to avoid any problems.

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on?

Harrison Midkiff

Get a copy of the white paper winTimeServ.doc from Microsoft. The PDC
emulator is the time authority for the domain. Only that FSMO role should be
performing an external time sync with Navy time servers.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/docs/wintimeserv.doc
 

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