NT4 Clients Time Synch

[Alan Woodward]

A question that I expect has been asked many, many times before!!

I have a number of NT4 Workstation clients that are on an AD W2k Domain. I
want to do a time sync for the workstations to the PDC emulator on login
(through a login script).

On execution of the script, the error message "A required priviledge is not
held by the client" is displayed.

This would be so - as the clients (obviously) don't have the rights to
change the system time.

Even if I set a GPO to allow clients to set the time, would this affect NT4
clients (who presumably can't read AD GPO's)??

Is there any way around this, so that I don't have to grant rights to the
user??

Advice gratefully welcome!!

Alan.

 

[Jerold Schulman]

A question that I expect has been asked many, many times before!!

I have a number of NT4 Workstation clients that are on an AD W2k Domain. I
want to do a time sync for the workstations to the PDC emulator on login
(through a login script).

On execution of the script, the error message "A required priviledge is not
held by the client" is displayed.

This would be so - as the clients (obviously) don't have the rights to
change the system time.

Even if I set a GPO to allow clients to set the time, would this affect NT4
clients (who presumably can't read AD GPO's)??

Is there any way around this, so that I don't have to grant rights to the
user??

Advice gratefully welcome!!

Alan.

If you do it in a logon script, the user needs the SeSystemtimePrivilege right.

You could use tip 4195 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com to run
it.

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