NTP and win2k

[[Darth] Snowbeam]

Darin,

I had this problem a while ago:

1) execute the command: net time /setsntp:"you.ntp.machine
your.other.ntp.machines"

and then nothing happens.  :)  So, then you need to

2) go to services in control panel and change the "Windows time" service
from manual to automatic, and then start it.

The default setting for net time to update (once it starts) is :
"SpecialSkew" = once every 45 minutes until 3 good synchronizations occur,
then once every 8 hours (3 per day) [default]

Part 2, changing it from manual to Automatic is probably what you need
most here.

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Darin Perusich wrote:

> this ones for the win2k admins out there. i want the win2k machines in
> the office to get there time from my ntp servers. i have 3 ntp servers,
> 2 sun server running xntp 3-5.93e that ships with solaris 8, and 1 cisco
> router. i've setup a win2k machine to start the "Windows Time" service
> on startup, yet it isn't getting the updated time from ntp. when i run
> "net time /setsntp:ntp.domain.com" it USUALLY updates the time but not
> always, wouldn't it be great if my linux services only worked sometimes
> ;}. if that doesn't set the time i can force it by running "m32tm -v
> -once -test", i've never had this fail. keep in mind that i'm either
> logged in as administrator or a user with admin perms. if i change the
> time, log off, or reboot the machine and login with a general "user" the
> time does not update. if i try to set the time via a netlogin.cmd logon
> script it fails with a permission denied error.
> 
> after all that how do i get windows to sync time before it gets into
> luser land, during startup? are there any registry values that i need to
> tweak? as usually m$ technet has been useless.
> 
> thanks

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