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Time Syncronization

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by nhoerner

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All of my servers are showing the correct time (NT, Windows 2000 and Netware)but my workstations all show an hour ahead. Has anyone ever seen this before and where could the workstations be pulling this erroneous time from?? Interestingly enough, I have one computer that reboots automatically nightly and it always comes up correctly..it's the only one. If you disconnect a computer from the network, adjust the time and reboot, it keeps the correct time but if you leave it on the network, adjust the time and reboot it jumps to an hour ahead. This is driving my users crazy and I have no clue as to where the wrong time could be coming from. HELP!

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by nhoerner

All workstations are on Central Time Zone (correct) and set to update for Daylight Savings Time

by nhoerner

I tried this in the Netware login script (that's the server every authenticate's to first)but I receive an error message stating "this utility could not interpret the line.

by jayanth

You say that if you disconnect a m/c from the network, adjust its time and reboot and put it back, the time again jumps one hour ahead. A Long shot, but could be that theres some problem with the h/w, if all those systems were bought together at a same vendor.

OR it could also be possible that someone is running a NTP on your network which broadcasts its time to all other m/c's on the network.

by nhoerner

No, not all systems were bought at the same time or from the same vendor. As to someone running a NTP...I don't think that would be possible on our network without me knowing about it. One of the "odd" things is...everything was fine until about two weeks ago when I brought all the servers down because they needed to change an electrical circut. When I brought the servers back up, we had the problem..I have since shut all servers down again and brought them up with no change. Again...the servers along with a computer that reboots daily are all correct...everyone else's time is an hour ahead. Any other ideas out there??

by gigelul

I don't work with NetWare server but there don't exist a similar command with ?
You have implemented a policies which don't allow users to save settings on logoff?
Users have rights to change system time (default they don't have this right in NT, W2k or WinXP when they logon to domain)?
If the above suggestions don't work I think that you must search what happend at logon process, what scripts are running, which server authenticate users, check login script. Something about networkenviroment.
No more ideas.

by nhoerner

there is a similar command in netware but that didn't fix the problem either.
I have found an interesting phenomena...if left alone, all computers who are a part of a certain domain correct their time (takes about an hour), but those machines thatare a part of a different domain do not change. This still does not explain why the time is incorrect at boot up when all servers on the LAN have the exact same time, as does the router and the firewall. Any more ideas out there??

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