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I have a windows 2003 server which is our domain controller. The time on the

server is slow by about 8 minutes to the correct time. This in turn would

cause the clients that login to the domain to be off also. How do you fix the

time on the server so it is the correct time? Does the server sync with an

external source?

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Guest Brad Dinerman [MVP - Enterprise Security]
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Re: windows time is not accurate

 

You can force the server to synch with a specified external time server.

One that I use is time-a.nist.gov, which is in the US. (Not sure

where you're located...)

 

Use this command to set the server's authoritative time source:

NET TIME /SETSNTP:time-a.nist.gov

 

Yours,

Brad

 

 

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Bradley J. Dinerman, MVP - Enterprise Security

President, National Information Security Group

http://www.naisg.org

 

 

 

 

 

Tigger wrote:

> I have a windows 2003 server which is our domain controller. The time on the

> server is slow by about 8 minutes to the correct time. This in turn would

> cause the clients that login to the domain to be off also. How do you fix the

> time on the server so it is the correct time? Does the server sync with an

> external source?

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RE: windows time is not accurate

 

What is the default setting on the server? Is it getting the time from an

external server or is it getting the time internally? I did a "net time

/querysntp" in the command prompt. It came back with "time.windows.com, 0x1".

 

"Tigger" wrote:

> I have a windows 2003 server which is our domain controller. The time on the

> server is slow by about 8 minutes to the correct time. This in turn would

> cause the clients that login to the domain to be off also. How do you fix the

> time on the server so it is the correct time? Does the server sync with an

> external source?


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