Setting my PDC Emulator to time sync to external time source

[Guest aja44]

Hi all,

 

I have a couple of servers and a few hundered computers in my school. I

have a time sync as part of the users logon scripts that sync the time on

their PC to the PDC Emulator FSMO box. All DC's are running Server 2003 with

a couple of 2000 servers running applications. All the servers and PC's show

the same time as my PDC Emulator. But when I go to

http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java for time I find that I am

3 minutes off. I would like to sync my PDC Emulator DC to an outside time

source. Can some help me out doing this. I found a kb article that has a

series of registry settings but reference peers which I did not understand.

 

Thanks,

[Guest Bjarne Duelund]

Re: Setting my PDC Emulator to time sync to external time source

 

Use this command on your PDC:

w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:<timesource> /syncfromflags:manual

/reliable:yes /update

 

where <timesource> is the IP address or DNS name of your external

timesource.

 

and restart the time service with (might not be needed, but just in

case...):

net stop w32time

net start w32time

 

All other Domain Controllers should sync automatically with the PDC and all

other clients (member servers and workstations (Windows 2000+)) in the

domain, should automatically sync with any Domain Controller - no need for

syncing in the logon script.

 

To assure normal domain time syncing on other than the PDC, use this

command:

w32tm /config /syncfromflags:domhier /update

 

and restart the time service with:

net stop w32time

net start w32time

 

 

Hope this helps,

- Bjarne Duelund

 

 

"aja44" <aja44@discussions.microsoft.com> skrev i meddelelsen

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> Hi all,

>

> I have a couple of servers and a few hundered computers in my school. I

> have a time sync as part of the users logon scripts that sync the time on

> their PC to the PDC Emulator FSMO box. All DC's are running Server 2003

> with

> a couple of 2000 servers running applications. All the servers and PC's

> show

> the same time as my PDC Emulator. But when I go to

> http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java for time I find that I

> am

> 3 minutes off. I would like to sync my PDC Emulator DC to an outside time

> source. Can some help me out doing this. I found a kb article that has a

> series of registry settings but reference peers which I did not

> understand.

>

> Thanks,