Time Zone

[Jerry Fortenberry]

We have one domain. The pc's are located from Arkansas to
California.....spanning several time zones. Since we updated our server to
Windows 2000, we get the following error when trying to access a share on a
2000 Pro or Wxp pc that has the time zone set to a time zone not the same as
the server (domain controller). "This server's clock is not
synchronized with the primary domain computer's clock."

 

[Alexander Suhovey]

Hi Jerry,

The error is quite selfexplanatory. Make sure that time is actually
syncronized across your domain.
Commands to help you with this are as follows:

net time - shows local time
net time /domain - shows time on domain controller
net time /domain /set /y - syncronizes local time with domain controller
time.

What you should know is that internal Windows clock are in UTC. Time Zone
offset is being added right before showing time to user e.g. in tray. So if
you see the *same* time in tray of two computers with different time zones
you can say for sure that time is NOT syncronized between those two
computers. I don't know if all this is obviuos for you, I'm saying it just
because I found that this concept is not clesr clear for number of people I
have discussed it with...

For more info please refer to Windows Time Service White Paper:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/howitworks/security/wintimeserv.asp

hth,
Al.

In

 

[Jerry Fortenberry]

That article was very helpful. Thanks

Hi Jerry,

The error is quite selfexplanatory. Make sure that time is actually
syncronized across your domain.
Commands to help you with this are as follows:

net time - shows local time
net time /domain - shows time on domain controller
net time /domain /set /y - syncronizes local time with domain controller
time.

What you should know is that internal Windows clock are in UTC. Time Zone
offset is being added right before showing time to user e.g. in tray. So if
you see the *same* time in tray of two computers with different time zones
you can say for sure that time is NOT syncronized between those two
computers. I don't know if all this is obviuos for you, I'm saying it just
because I found that this concept is not clesr clear for number of people I
have discussed it with...

For more info please refer to Windows Time Service White Paper:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/howitworks/security/wintimeserv.asp

hth,
Al.

In

 

[Robert Greene [MSFT]]

If you are running Active Directory here is an article to follow on the PDC
Emulator of the Forest Root Domain:

216734 How to Configure an Authoritative Time Server in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=216734

816042 How to configure the Windows Time service on a Windows Server
2003-based
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=816042

262680 A List of the Simple Network Time Protocol Time Servers That Are
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=262680


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