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by friet001

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Ok, this is my dilemma: We are having trouble with some of our computers keeping time on our domain (servers are fine, just the workstations). I do *not* want to have to touch every workstation on the domain to get this taken care of. The only options that I have come accross (other than commercial equivalents which do the same thing for a fee) are the following...1)Timeserv (from the NT Resource Kit), which requires that a piece be installed on the client PC anyway, and 2) Adding the followingto our login script--Net time \\PDC_name_here /set /yes. The Problem that I have run into is that none of our users running the workstations have the set time permission on their local computer, so this doesn't work. Can someone *please* tell me howto incorporate some type of time setting function into our domain without touching every workstation here? If I do need to touch every computer, than fine, but then please tell me how to give the permission to users, since I have never had to deal with this in NT. Ideally, all the computers in the domain should be synced 3-4 times in a workday, once at the very least.
BTW, I'm running an NT4SP6a-only domain (other than a handful of Win98 laptops, which I am not that concerned about), 100Mb ethernet, Cisco 2900 switches, a PDC, BDC, and two member servers (if any of this helps).
Thank-you in advance for your time and help!

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by lbischofs

If you have the NT resource Kit you can modify the Set Time policy for remote workstations with NTRIGHTS. After that a simple Net Time \\servername /set /yes in the login script will work very well. Timeserv works well, however, there is a new certified version out called W32TIME, which can be found on the Microsoft web.

by ronnonf

How come you don't create a login script that will sync up the time when they first login. The scripts will be placed in the NETLOGON directory and you should replicate this dir to all of your BDCs within the domain.
(You can make modifications to this script at a later date to include forced drive mapping...)
this can be done in User Mgr for Domains::Profile:Logon Script Name

by comdex20

Run User Manger for domains and Select Policies and User Rights and add the Domain Users Group ( i'm assuming that all user accounts are at least part of that group. ) or you can select multiple accounts ( holding CTRL and clicking on the accounts you want). Grant the Change System Time right. create a Logon.bat file and save it in the c:\winnt\system32\repl\import\scripts and include the line :
net time \\servername /set /yes

usually the first line... so users don't have time to react andclose the window..at least your time is set...

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