Net Time always connecting to a DC far away.

[Greg Brown]

The domain is made up of multiple DC that are in two
different sites.

When I open a command prompt and just type in Net Time it
always comes back with a response from a DC that is not
in the same site as the server or workstation. The DC
that it lists is also not the PDC emulator. And it
appears to come back with the same server no matter what
server or workstation (W2K) that I do this at.

I found an article that said if I did not specify a
server it would randomly pick. But it does not appear to
be random. Does anyone know how it picks which server to
show the time on if you do not specify one?

TIA
Greg

 

[Jerold Schulman]

The domain is made up of multiple DC that are in two
different sites.

When I open a command prompt and just type in Net Time it
always comes back with a response from a DC that is not
in the same site as the server or workstation. The DC
that it lists is also not the PDC emulator. And it
appears to come back with the same server no matter what
server or workstation (W2K) that I do this at.

See tip 2669 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

Why not always use:
net time %logonserver% /set /yes

I found an article that said if I did not specify a
server it would randomly pick. But it does not appear to
be random. Does anyone know how it picks which server to
show the time on if you do not specify one?

TIA
Greg

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

 

[Marty List]

Check to see if someone forced a specific time server, run this command:

Net Time /QuerySNTP