Problems with NTP on Win2003

[Guest]

Hi,
I have 10 computers in production which I want to synchronize with
each other.
I don't want to get outside for synchronization, so I want to choose
one of them to be a master.
Each one of the computers have different password for administrator
(because of security).
When I try to configure Windows time to get time from the master
server, I got permissions denied.
Did I have any options to run "Windows Time" service under different
account(not local service) ?
How can I sync time for this kind of environment?

Thank you

 

[Guest]

Read the contents of this link:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042/en-us

Skip the "Configuring the Windows Time service to use an internal hardware
clock" section, and go to the section titled "Configuring the Windows Time
service to use an external time source".

We use an internal server as our NTP server, and that server syncs with
trustworthy external sources. That's the best "no money spent" solution I
know.

 

[Guest]

Hi

I alredy read this article and try it, but it's not work as I expected.
You told:

We use an internal server as our NTP server,

How you configure NTP clients with 'net time /setsntp' or with w32tm ?

 

[Guest]

We update clients with w32tm (easier, but not as much control), or by editing
the Registry (not harder, but scarier, plus more control over W32Time
functionality):
My Computer\HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters

Modify "NtpServer" to equal the IP or DNS name of your NTP servers. If you
need to, you can insert more than one server.

Always export the original W32Time key before you start making changes.