I recently installed/configured the w32time service on my NT4 network. My goal is to synchronize time on my servers only – SMS handles time updates for all of our clients.
I would like to configure my NT4 PDC as a Master Time Server, and then manually point my remaining NT4/Win2000 servers to it – no broadcasts.
My NT4 PDC has W32time configured as follows:
Type=NTP
NTPServer= a valid IP for a UNIX NTP server on our corporate network
Log=yes
LocalNTP=no
This functionality works fine.
Next, I configured one of my Win2000 servers with the NET TIME \\PDC /SETSNTP command. After restarting the time service, the time jumped several minutes to correspond to the time on the PDC.
I continued to run this command on my remaining Win2000 servers. Then I installed/configured the W32time service on my remaining NT4 servers. The NT4 member servers were configured as follows:
Type=PRIMARY
PrimarySource=\\PDC_NAME
timesource=no
All of my servers, both Win2000 and NT4 synced up fine. I just have one issue:
When I run the NET TIME command on any of my servers, Win2000 or NT4, it returns the time and Netbios name from the first Win2000 member server I configured. As a matter of fact, clients will return the same server name and time.
I was under the impression that my servers/clients should be receiving time from the PDC, and should report this with the NET TIME command.
Why is this happening?
Thanks,
JR