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Changing the Time on the PDC Emulator in Windows 2003
Hi,
Simple question, we run 2 Domains A & B, they have 2 way trusts to link them together.
The time on Domain A is 7 minutes out of wack with the rest of the world and the time on Domain B is about 10 minutes out and I want to correct it. Not to fussed about having to set up an external time clock and am quite happy to every now and then manually update it.
Everything I read seems to be basically 'change the time on the PDC Emulator) and everything will be A OK. However I am a bit wary of this as I did a time change a few years back on network running Windows 2003 Domain (sigle Domain, no forest) last thing in the evening and the next day came back to authentication problems (users couldn't access folders) and replication problems (sysvol etc...). Wound up rebooting every Domain Controller on the Network. May have been a conincidence but...
Has anyone actually changed the Time on the PDC Emulator, particularly in an environment with 2 Domains Trusting each other?
Thanks.
Simple question, we run 2 Domains A & B, they have 2 way trusts to link them together.
The time on Domain A is 7 minutes out of wack with the rest of the world and the time on Domain B is about 10 minutes out and I want to correct it. Not to fussed about having to set up an external time clock and am quite happy to every now and then manually update it.
Everything I read seems to be basically 'change the time on the PDC Emulator) and everything will be A OK. However I am a bit wary of this as I did a time change a few years back on network running Windows 2003 Domain (sigle Domain, no forest) last thing in the evening and the next day came back to authentication problems (users couldn't access folders) and replication problems (sysvol etc...). Wound up rebooting every Domain Controller on the Network. May have been a conincidence but...
Has anyone actually changed the Time on the PDC Emulator, particularly in an environment with 2 Domains Trusting each other?
Thanks.
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I found a little free utility that will synch your PDCe with an outside Time server without openning up port 123 on your firewall. It uses the HTTP port.
It is a little program called Symmtime. This program is already configured with a number of time sources to choose from and will synch your PDCe system clock with an outside time source. Some sources are .gov time servers.
Symmtime was created by a group called Symmetricom. They manufacture time servers for huge domains and government services. I use their software to synch up to my time servers and it keeps my time right on target.
Symmetricom has two FREE utilities that are VERY easy to install and setup. One is called LMcheck and the other is Symmtime. There is a third utility, that encorporates all these functions into one, called Domain Time II. It get's a little spendy though.
Symmtime: (Free)
http://www.symmetricom.com/resources/downloads/symmtime/
LMcheck:
http://www.symmetricom.com/resources/downloads/lmcheck-software/
Domain Time II: (Overview)
http://dtdocs.ntp-systems.com/software/domaintime/instructions/tools/utils.asp
It is a little program called Symmtime. This program is already configured with a number of time sources to choose from and will synch your PDCe system clock with an outside time source. Some sources are .gov time servers.
Symmtime was created by a group called Symmetricom. They manufacture time servers for huge domains and government services. I use their software to synch up to my time servers and it keeps my time right on target.
Symmetricom has two FREE utilities that are VERY easy to install and setup. One is called LMcheck and the other is Symmtime. There is a third utility, that encorporates all these functions into one, called Domain Time II. It get's a little spendy though.
Symmtime: (Free)
http://www.symmetricom.com/resources/downloads/symmtime/
LMcheck:
http://www.symmetricom.com/resources/downloads/lmcheck-software/
Domain Time II: (Overview)
http://dtdocs.ntp-systems.com/software/domaintime/instructions/tools/utils.asp
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