Synchronizing clocks

[Guest Mandy]

I have 3 XP PC's inside a LAN.

How can I synchronize their clocks?

 

Regards

Mandy

[Guest Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Re: Synchronizing clocks

 

"Mandy" <mandy@goren.org.ir> wrote in message

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>I have 3 XP PC's inside a LAN.

> How can I synchronize their clocks?

 

 

Are they connected to the Internet? If they are they should synchronize to

NIST or someone within a week.

 

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[Guest John John]

Re: Synchronizing clocks

 

The simplest way to do this on a small workgroup is to set up one

machine as the Time Source and then use the NET TIME command on the

other machines to have them synchronize with the Time Source.

 

The Time Source is just any one computer in the workgroup that you want

to use for the reference time, on this computer you may want to have it

synchronize with an outside time source (a time server on the internet)

or you can just set the time manually if that is good enough for your

use. On the other machines you use the Time Source computer's name in

the NET TIME command, let's assume that TimeSource is the name of the

computer.

 

From the other machines you just run this command:

 

NET TIME \\TimeSource /set /yes

 

You can make a small batch file for this and throw it or a shortcut to

in in the All Users Startup folder or in a startup script and every time

the workstations are started/logged on to the batch file will run and

the machines will synchronize with TimeSource. On the machines running

this command set the Windows Time Service to manual, you don't want the

Time Service running. On TimeSource it's up to you, if you set the time

manually you don't need the Time Service running.

 

If you want to do it the complicated way you have to set one machine as

an Authoritative Time Server, and have the other machines set to

synchronize to it with the Time Service, see here:

http://jarmanator.net/kb/xpntpserver.htm and search the Microsoft site

for "Authoritative Time Server".

 

John

 

 

Mandy wrote:

> I have 3 XP PC's inside a LAN.

> How can I synchronize their clocks?

>

> Regards

> Mandy

>

>

[Guest Marty K]

Re: Synchronizing clocks

 

Mandy wrote:

> I have 3 XP PC's inside a LAN.

> How can I synchronize their clocks?

>

> Regards

> Mandy

>

>

Open the control panel Date Time properties and click on the

internet time tab. If its not already checked click the automatically

sync time and enter: time.windows.com, in the server window and click on

update now. Time may or may not be updated (not sure why but sometimes

the time is not updated but if I check back later it has been) but rest

assured that it will be updated shortly. Click on apply. Close the

control panel.

You can come back later and see that the time has been updated.

[Guest Andy]

Re: Synchronizing clocks

 

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:16:48 +0200, "Mandy" <mandy@goren.org.ir>

wrote:

>I have 3 XP PC's inside a LAN.

>How can I synchronize their clocks?

>

>Regards

>Mandy

>

If you want something easy to use, try NetTime.

<http://nettime.sourceforge.net/>