Disabling Setting PC Time

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cliff

In Windows 2000 Professional, is there a way to prevent
Windows from updating it's time with the time of the
server it is logging into? Thanks
 
Check to see if the users Logon script has a NET TIME statement normally the
station should not change time at logon.
 
Jlmc said:
Check to see if the users Logon script has a NET TIME statement normally the
station should not change time at logon.
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Hi

In a domain, it will happen at system startup:

From the "Windows Time Service" white paper at the following Microsoft Web
site:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/howitworks/security/wintimeserv.asp

<quote>
On computers that are joined to a domain, time synchronization takes place when
the W32Time service turns on during system startup. The Net Logon service looks
for a domain controller that can authenticate and synchronize time with the
client. When a domain controller is found, the client sends a request for time
and waits for a reply from the domain controller. This communication is an
exchange of SNTP packets intended to calculate the time offset and roundtrip
delay between the two computers.
</quote>


More info here as well:

How to Configure an Authoritative Time Server in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;216734
 
I take this is a feature of 2000 Server and Active Directory Services. We
are still on NT 4.0 :( .
 
You're correct. So unless you're running net time ... /set in the login
script, it isn't getting sync'd (and even if you do run net time, the user
would need the right to change the local system time to do so).

May I ask why you wouldn't want the time sync'd?
 
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