unable to sync with an internet time server

[Guest]

I have about 1000 XP workstations that are unable to sync with time.nist.gov.
Every time I try tos sync I get this message "An error occured while Windows
was synchronizing with time.nist.gov". I do not see any messages in the event
viewer, since all of these computers are local workstations it will difficult
to add new time servers to each of them. Does anyone have any idea why all of
these computers are not able to access time.nist.gov.

On a side note, with a test machine here, it can reach time.windows.com with
no issues.

Thanks for any guidance.

 

[Claymore]

Hello,

Lots of folks are having trouble recently with time.nist.gov, but
getting success with time.windows.com.
You can change the default with a registry script. Don't know your
setup, but is it possible to distribute a registry script to change
the default time server? The script below would do it, copy/paste the
text into Notepad and save as "time.reg":


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DateTime
\Servers]
@="1"
"1"="time.windows.com"
"2"="time.nist.gov"