Time Issue

[Jon]

I am having a tough time trying to figure this one out. I have a Win2K3
Domain set up as a root/child configuration. A few weeks ago I heard from a
few people that their desktops were off about 8 - 10 minutes (ahead) from
the network time. I looked into it and ran the w32tm command line and
synced the systems back up but it did not stay resident to the network time.
They were again off 8 - 10 minutes. It isn't always the same systems and it
seems to be a continuing problem.

I turned the 1st DC in the root domain as the NTP server and set a GPO
for everyone to use it to get their time from. The Event Viewer in the
desktops shows the child DC's are giving the desktops their time and they
are getting theirs from the 1st root DC. So, everything should be fine but
I still have the issue.

I'm not sure what else to look at. With the GPO in place when a system
boots it should get, and set, its time accordingly.



Any response would be great and thanks in advance -

Jon

 

[Guest]

Hi,

I have always had time issues. I find that the W32Time service is not always
reliable. I have a Domain Wide batch file that updates the time on boot.

net time \\server /set /y

Works for me.

Cheers,
Lara

 

[Jon]

Thank you very much for your Reply Lara. How do you set the time using the
batch file? Do you call it in a login script? Put it in everyones Startup
folder? Or do you use a more creative method?

Thank you again for your Reply. It really is appreciated -
Jon-

 

[Guest]

Hi,

I use it as a Startup Script. Users don't have permission to change the Time
on Computers. Therefore running it as a Logon Script won't work. I just put
it in my Default Domain Policy as a startup script under Computer
Configuration. It runs at startup.

W32Time relies heavily on DNS. Therefore if your DNS IP in DNS is incorrect
then W32Time has difficulty synching. I still use the W32time but I just back
it up with the net time.

I guess I have been doing this since Windows NT 3 so we didn't have the
luxury of W32time back then.

Cheers,
Lara