Help with time sync on mixed network

[bluegnu]

We have a network which has a mix of NT4/Win2000/Win2003 servers.

We have tried synchronising the time on all the servers, but it just doesn't seem to work - we can get the Win2003 synched with each other but the NT machines just won't for some reason.

There is no connection to the internet so I would like to set up one of the machines as a NTP server and have all the others sychronize with this.

I have installed an NTP service from Meinberg and tried to get one of teh NT4 machines to be the NTP server and another NT4 server to sync with it - but it just doesn't want to work.

Can anyone advise me of the best configuration or whether I would need to install something else to get this to work?

Many thanks. Apologies for the lack of information,this is all new to me so I'm struggling a bit with the correct terms and what everything means.

 

[TigerfanLSU]

We use login scripts here for our mixed environment. I have one 2003 server running the NTP service and I run the below command in a login script. It works perfectly.

For the 2000/XP clients:
net time /setsntp:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (IP of local NTP server)

For NT clients:
net time \\ntpservername /set /y

 

[Tony414]

Hi TigerFanLSU or whoever might stumble across this. I am trying the two command you mentionsed above. The NT client command works fine. The 2000/XP command completes successfully but doesn't change the time. I'm a little confused on what I might be doing wrong. Here is the command I am using "net time /setsntp:10.0.0.1" The 10.0.0.1 time source isn't located on my LAN but located across our WAN in another building. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Tony

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

"net time /setsntp:10.0.0.1"

For Windows 2000/XP clients on an Active Directory Domain, you would not have to run the above command. By default, the 2000/XP clients (that are domain memebers) would auto sync time to the PDC emulator.
If the Windows 2000/XP clients are on an NT4 domain, then use net time \\servername /set /y

The setsntp: argument should only be used on the PDC emulator when syncing to an external timesource.
eg net time \\DC01 /SETSNTP:time.usarmy.mil

 

[darahw]

I am new to a mixed Windows NT4 and 2000 domain environment. Can someone please tell me if the XP workstations and servers should all have the same time? I notices that a workstation that was logged in was 12 hours off and I noticed that a server was 1 hour behind. I know that this would be a problem in a Windows 2003 environment.

Can someone please shed some light?

Thanks in advance.

Dara