Time not getting synchronized

[ronnetp]

I have problems only with 4 computers on the network that the time is not getting syncronized with the domain controller, The weird thing is that 99% work perfectly but only few of them are having issues?

 

[aco636]

What happens when you type NET TIME at one of the problem machines?

Should come back and say the TIME at AD Server is Date Time?

You can force compuer to sync by typing
NET TIME \\Server /SET /Y
See also

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;232255

Hope this helps regards ACO

 

[ronnetp]

That is the solution I am using to force the time manually on a BAT file, but wanted to see if someone could have and idea why this was happening.

Thanks

 

[aco636]

Hi there
So what happens if you type Net Time?
Regards ACO

 

[mlichstein]

What type of clients? You should not be using net time manually or in a batch file to sync time for 2000 and XP clients.

Run 'net time /querysntp' It should say "this computer is not configured to use a specific SNTP server"

If it says something else, run 'net time /setsntp:' then restart the Windows Time service.

Net time is not the way to check for time sync on 2000 and XP clients. On 2000, you need to do the following:

net stop w32time
w32tm -v -once
net start w32time.

The w32tm output will show who the machine is syncing with.

On XP run 'w32tm /resync /rediscover /nowait' You should see a w32time event in the system log.