windows WORKGROUP time synching question

[Guest]

Happy New Year everyone,

I'm hoping for some info on the folowing: I work for a large library system
in the Bay Area where we have the following problem: we use a patron
authentication application that necessitates time synchronization between the
app server and the client pc's. Now here's our dilema, we operate in a
WORKGROUP envt, NOT a domain. Can anybody clue me in on how to configure the
w2k clients and the app server to synch? As we are a library, free 3rd party
software ideas would be much appreciated!

Many thanks!

Adrian Roe

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Happy New Year everyone,

I'm hoping for some info on the folowing: I work for a large library system
in the Bay Area where we have the following problem: we use a patron
authentication application that necessitates time synchronization between the
app server and the client pc's. Now here's our dilema, we operate in a
WORKGROUP envt, NOT a domain. Can anybody clue me in on how to configure the
w2k clients and the app server to synch? As we are a library, free 3rd party
software ideas would be much appreciated!

Many thanks!

Adrian Roe

See http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=120944


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

 

[Colon Terminus]

Install a free utility that can access one of the many atomic clocks (D4Time
comes to mind as a good utility) on one of the computers that has internet
access. Have that computer synchronize its clock with the atomic clock at
startup and every 6 hours thereafter. For purposes of discussion, lets call
this computer TimeSrvr. Have each of the other computers synchronize their
clock with TimeSrvr on startup and, additionally, using Scheduled Tasks have
them synchronize their clock with TimeSrvr every 12 hours (this will require
two scheduled tasks). This way, the clocks should never be more than a few
microseconds out of synch.

To synchronize the clock with TimeSrvr run the following .cmd file:

@echo off
net time \\TimeSrvr /set /yes

You need to be sure that each workstation has proper access rights to
TimeSrvr.

You can get D4Time here:
http://ftp.uevora.pt/pub/windows/Utils/d4time/