Internet time won't synch

[Guest]

Every time I try and update my internet time and have it synch with
time.windows.com I recieve and error message. Same with all the rest of the
servers. Please help

 

[Richard Urban]

What firewall are you using?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[R. McCarty]

Try it without DNS translation, just enter 129.6.15.29 in the time
Server box and test to see if it will sync.

 

[Guest]

Mcafee

What firewall are you using?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

No it still wouldn't

Try it without DNS translation, just enter 129.6.15.29 in the time
Server box and test to see if it will sync.

 

[Ian Betts]

Every time I try and update my internet time and have it synch with
time.windows.com I recieve and error message. Same with all the rest of
the
servers. Please help

I find them useless as well, I do not think it works at all.

 

[Richard Urban]

There you go!

I have the same problem if I install PCTools Firewall Plus on a computer.
The only time the time syncs is during boot up. I have not been able to find
out what component I have to "allow" internet access for, for the syncing to
perform. Maybe someone else will jump in with the information. This just has
not been important enough for me to research the problem because sync at
boot is fine for me.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

I find them useless as well, I do not think it works at all.

It works just as well it ever did in XP. Its just the the default servers
maybe overloaded.

There are many NTP servers from all around the world that you could use, and
you should choose one that is near to you. I live in the UK, and I find the
uk.pool.ntp.org works flawlessly for me.

ss.

 

[Rutetuti]

Hi,

If you are using Mcafee, go to Firewall, System Services and open the ntp
port 123.
That worked for me.

Cheers

 

[Marco Desloovere]

There you go!

I have the same problem if I install PCTools Firewall Plus on a computer.
The only time the time syncs is during boot up. I have not been able to find
out what component I have to "allow" internet access for, for the syncing to
perform. Maybe someone else will jump in with the information. This just has
not been important enough for me to research the problem because sync at
boot is fine for me.

Make sure that your firewall is not filtering port 123/UDP, which is
used by the NTP (Network Time Protocol) for time synchronization.

Marco

 

[Marco Desloovere]

It works just as well it ever did in XP. Its just the the default servers
maybe overloaded.

I can confirm this.
I also took the liberty to modify the registry, so that time
synchronization takes place once an hour instead of once a week.

There are many NTP servers from all around the world that you could use, and
you should choose one that is near to you. I live in the UK, and I find the
uk.pool.ntp.org works flawlessly for me.

I live in Belgium and synchronize my Vista time with "de.pool.ntp.org".

More info here: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/NTPPoolServers

Marco

 

[Guest]

Rutetuti,
Thanks for your post. That worked for me