NTP Server

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I have a 15 server Win2k3 domain. How do I configure NTP service for my

Cisco and Nortel devices?

 

Thanks,

Troy

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Re: NTP Server

 

Start with "How Windows Time Service Works" at

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/71e76587-28f4-4272-a3d7-7f44ca50c0181033.mspx?mfr=true.

Your domain and Windows clients have everything they need; you just have to

point your domain controller or other device to an external time source, and

that is authoritative for your domain.

 

You can point your NTP clients to your domain controllers, preferably ones

that don't mind getting the additional traffic. Your PDC emulator or FSMO

usually are not good choices.

 

What some shops do is make a gateway or border network device their NTP

server, letting it get its time from an external device, and then pointing

the domain controllers and other network devices to it. That's a pretty good

choice. You can ask your ISP if they will provide an NTP server to you as

their customer, to serve as your external device (with only your NTP server

pointing to it).

 

Configuring your Ciscos and Nortel devices to use this is beyond the scope

of this forum, but that info is usually easy enough to find.

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