Time on DC 5 mins behind

shanemort

Guys, All the pcs on our network are 5mins behind what they should be.

If i manualy change the time on the DC and my laptop it will after a day or 2 go back again exactly 5mins behind again....

Its getting very annoying as all the directors are 5mins late for meetings and im getting aboused about it,

Googled and googled to no avail, has anyone else seen this???

please HELP!:(

Teamhair

You've fixed the time on the domain controller, yeah?

shanemort

Teamhair wrote:

You've fixed the time on the domain controller, yeah?

No everytime i manually change it within a day or so it slips back to 5 mins behind!!!

Teamhair

Have a skim through this article, it might help. There are a couple of links in it that may be more relevant to your network.

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Configuring-Windows-Time-Service.html

Teamhair

Wait, my URL has been messed up. Let me try pasting it again

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Configuring-Windows-Time-Service.html

Teamhair

It get you to the right place, my mistake! Good luck!

Static M.e.

Your server CMOS battery could be fading. Depending on server age I would replace

Thomas_S_Hunterson

You could set it up to synchronise with one of the many time servers on the internet every hour or so

shanemort

Teamhair wrote:

It get you to the right place, my mistake! Good luck!

Will try later thanks for all your help

SouperComputer

sean_keevey wrote:

You could set it up to synchronise with one of the many time servers on the internet every hour or so

Thats what I was thinking. NTP is your friend. Just dont do a dlink and hammer the NTP servers

shanemort

k went through the microsoft guide seems to have worked but the real trick is to leave for a few days and see if time stays still!!!!!


Thanks guys for all your help!!!

hey u guys any good with exchange?

WizZard

For NTP use 0.ie.pool.ntp.org and 1.ie.pool.ntp.org

That should speed up NTP and ensure you don't hammer specific servers

Make another thread for the Exchange question

Capt'n Midnight

SouperComputer wrote:

Thats what I was thinking. NTP is your friend. Just dont do a dlink and hammer the NTP servers

Dell Windows XP SP2 CD

\$OEM$\oem.inf

[Version]
Signature=$CHICAGO$

[DefaultInstall]
AddReg=Volume.AddReg, Reboot.AddReg, Time.AddReg

[Volume.AddReg]
HKCU,"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\SysTray","Services",0x00010001,31

[Reboot.AddReg]
HKLM,"System\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl","AutoReboot",0x00010001,0

[Time.AddReg]
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DateTime\Servers",,0000000000,"3"
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DateTime\Servers","3",0000000000,"time-a.nist.gov"