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by california dead head

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Is there a way to set the system time on the clients to match the domain controller time. So that everyone has the same time displayed on their computer. Be specific.

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by therock_3333

hey
what OS are you running on your clients and DC's?
this type of time synchronization should be automatic from the DC. The pdc emulator for win2000 takes care of this...
need more info

by petemcc

TheRock 3333 is right, time synch is a function of W2k domain logon.

You may need to set your PDC emulator as the time server for your domain

If you want to set the domain controller time, do this:

C:\>net time /setsntp:tick.usno.navy.mil at 192.4.41.40
or, tock.usno.navy.mil at 192.5.41.41
or, ntp2.usno.navy.mil at 192.5.41.209

(using one of those three external time servers)

see:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q216734

A good article on w2k time synch:

http://www.winntmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8383

by admin

I use the logon script to do that.
Add the following line to the batch file.

net time \\ /set /yes

by admin

that way, even if the user changes the client pc's time, it will resync at next logon

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