Atomic Time Update?

[Ben Blackmore]

Hi,

We have a Windows NT workstation PC that goes out on to the net, and picks
up the time via an atomic clock.

Is it possible for our Windows 2000 server, to go to this PC, and ask for
the time/date and update itself, then broadcast to our domain?

Cheers

Ben

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Hi,

We have a Windows NT workstation PC that goes out on to the net, and picks
up the time via an atomic clock.

Is it possible for our Windows 2000 server, to go to this PC, and ask for
the time/date and update itself, then broadcast to our domain?

Cheers

Ben

You could implement tip 5414 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com on
the server and schedule the following batch file to run at startup:

@echo off
:again
@ping -n 301 127.0.0.1>nul
net time \\NTWorkstation /Set /Yes
goto again

The above will sync the time on the W2K Server with the NT Workstation every 5
minutes.


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Craig Householder]

Are you running AD? If so, you can set your PDC Emulator to pull the time

net time /setsntp:<servername>

This should be the reference for all of your workstations by default.

You could implement tip 5414 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at

http://www.jsiinc.com on

 

[Trevor Best]

Hi,

We have a Windows NT workstation PC that goes out on to the net, and picks
up the time via an atomic clock.

Is it possible for our Windows 2000 server, to go to this PC, and ask for
the time/date and update itself, then broadcast to our domain?

I use Yacs at home and on our domain server at work
(http://farmtek-fti.com/DeRamp/index.htm). I then use a "net time
/set" command in the domain login script, I find that once a day
should be enough, if any PC gets out of step within a week then the
clock is faulty.

If your workstations connect directly to the net then you can use the
same thing on there too, install it once, forget it, it just works.

 

[Ben Blackmore]

Hi,

I had a look at Yacs, but I'm not to keen on it, it has no task bar icon, or
setup screen, and I set my clock back 10 minutes, and ran the program and it
didn't update. I've looked at some other programs, licenses are only £10 -
£20, I might buy on and put it on the PDC then use "net time
/setsntpdcontroller" in the AD logon script for the workstations.
I tried using "net time /setsntp:ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk" on the PDC but it fails
with some silly errors, looking at MS site w32time has problems running on a
PDC.

Ben

 

[Colon Terminus]

I find D4Time to be an excellent solution. It's all over the web and free.

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi Ben - I highly recommend NetTime here: http://nettime.sourceforge.net/
The nice thing about it is that it will automatically check 140 or so
servers, find those that are working, pick the "best" five for you, update
your time automatically at your designated interval by comparing all five
and has provision for updating other computers on a local net. Or you can
individually test and select the five to be used from servers around the
world. You can use it to either automatically set the time in your tray or
to do so manually. I tried out a number of time set programs, and this is
far-and-away the best. Since you can add servers to the .ini file, it
would, I think, easily handle your needs. Regards, Jim Byrd


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