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Change Clock Group Policy

Asked by: rgutwein

Hi Everyone,

Currently our network has Windows 2003 Server with the clients running Windows XP Pro.  I want the client computer's time to sync with the server's time.  I created a login script that does that, the only problem that some of these user accounts do not have access to change the clock on the client computer.  I do not want to go around to every mahcine and make them a local administrator.  What would be the easiest way to solve this.  I was hoping that there was some Group Policy setting, but I cannot find one.

Thanks!

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Answers

 

by: paulfazPosted on 2006-08-09 at 11:58:01ID: 17281896

hi, you can do this under the GPO...

Computer Config > System > Windows Time Service > Time Providers

Older versions of Windows didnt utilise NTP, and used SNTP... Windows 2003 Servers support NTP, so you should simply be able to configure the above with your Windows 2003 Server.

If there a member of the Domain and your running 2003 DC's the clients should automatically sync with the Time Server without any configuration changes.

 

by: prashsaxPosted on 2006-08-09 at 12:29:10ID: 17282144

All you need to do is to set the NTP time source on the machine.

Ideally it should be the domain controller you have.

The command to do is:
>net time /setsntp:name_of_domain_controller

Thats it. You clients machine will sync time from DC.

You should also setup NTP server on DC as well.
>net time /setsntp:time.nist.gov

It is a internet server running NTP service. Just make sure that Domain controller can access time.nist.gov on port 123. As this port is using to sync time using NTP.

 

by: rodriguespPosted on 2006-08-09 at 13:41:31ID: 17282772

If you have a Windows 2003 Active Directory and your client machines are members of that domain, they shoul sync automatically with one of the domain controllers.

Check the event viewer on the clients and look for W32Time errors.

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by: scrathcyboyPosted on 2006-08-09 at 20:32:59ID: 17284868

They all need to be members of the same time zone for this to sync.  Is this possible?  If not, why do you need the people logging remotely to be part of the same time as the server?  That would throw their local time out from 1-4 hours across the U.S.  The remote people are either synced with their local time zone, or the server.  The other way is to make two profiles for each user, one for local login, where the do not have a time syn function in their script, and one for remote login, where they DO have a time sync function for their login script.

 

by: rgutweinPosted on 2006-08-10 at 04:13:37ID: 17286627

Thanks for all your help everyone!

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