Windows Time Service

[Bisha]

Hello everyone,

I want to set up the time service in our network.
When I type "Net Time" I get the time from a remote DC
server.
We are in AD and the server that I'm getting the time from
is a DC but not the PDC emulator.
How does the computer define the main DC for time ?
How can I change the athoritive server for time sync ?
I know that I can force the PC to sync with a paticular
server but I need to know how can I change the default one.

Thanks

 

[Bisha]

On MS article it says that:

"All client desktop computers nominate the authenticating
domain controller as their in-bound time partner."

In my case when I type Net time it shows another server
not the server that authenticated.Any idea ?

Thanks

 

[C Hall]

here's a kb article on setting up time service:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;216734

here's a white paper for a little more detail:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/docs/wintimeserv.doc

hth,
Chris

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

NET TIME /SET uses a different protocol than is used by the time service which
is what keeps machines in sync. The only NET TIME command involved for constant
time synching are NET TIME /SETSNTP and NET TIME /QUERYSNTP. The QUERYSNTP will
show you if a time server is configured. If one is configured, that is what is
used for the time service, if it isn't configured it will use the automatically
build time service topology which means the machine will go to the DC that
authenticated the machine and that DC will get the time from it's domain PDC and
the domain PDC will get it time from the forest root domain PDC. That PDC must
get the time from some outside time source such as a router or external time server.

You may also want to look at the w32tm command.