Time Sevice Paramenters

[Guest]

Not sure how the "period" entry works in the windows time service. Using NTP
option and the IP of an external NTP server. How does the "freq" option work.
Tried to enter "24" to sync every hour and it only synced every 8 hours
instead. Will this entry only accept one digit, what is the correct sytax.
Also should the WT service be left in auto or manual when used this way?

 

[Dave Patrick]

This article may help you.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q223184/

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| Not sure how the "period" entry works in the windows time service. Using
NTP
| option and the IP of an external NTP server. How does the "freq" option
work.
| Tried to enter "24" to sync every hour and it only synced every 8 hours
| instead. Will this entry only accept one digit, what is the correct sytax.
| Also should the WT service be left in auto or manual when used this way?
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| Wayne

 

[Guest]

Thanks Dave,

That doc does give some more details, but still doesn't say whether the
period "0" or the "freq" entries need to be dwords or sz's. It says the 5
digit ones are to be dwords, but what about the others?

 

[Dave Patrick]

"Period" should be REG_DWORD unless you're using the strings "BiDaily",
"Tridaily", "Weekly", "SpecialSkew", or "DailySpecialSkew"

It appears you should use either "Period" or "Freq" but not both. I don't
see where it says but I would try "Freq" as type REG_DWORD

Also take a look at these articles. The entries changed a little for SP4 and
later.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216734/EN-US/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/docs/wintimeserv.doc

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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| Thanks Dave,
|
| That doc does give some more details, but still doesn't say whether the
| period "0" or the "freq" entries need to be dwords or sz's. It says the 5
| digit ones are to be dwords, but what about the others?
| --
| Wayne