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by billc124

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Just recently setup a Windows 2000 AD machine as the primary on our network. The backup DC is Windows NT 4 for a few more months anway. I am getting the following error in my Event log rather frequently. Any ideas on how to make this stop would be appreciated. I am not using NT to sync workstations time we use Netware for that. Again, only for a little while longer. Anyway, here is the message:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: w32time
Event Category: None
Event ID: 64
Date: 7/25/2001
Time: 12:54:02 PM
User: N/A
Computer: AD1
Description:
Because of repeated network problems, the time service has not been able to find a domain controller to synchronize with for a long time. To reduce network traffic, the time service will wait 960 minutes before trying again. No synchronization will take place during this interval, even if network connectivity is restored. Accumulated time errors may cause certain network operations to fail. To tell the time service that network connectivity has been restored and that it should resynchronize, execute "w32tm /s" from the command line.
Data:
0000: e5 03 00 00 ?...

Thanks for any suggestions.

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by johndjauch

Odds are you are getting this log off your W2K machine. You will most likely have to upgrade your W32time files to a more current version for NT 4. There is an article titled "W32Time Network Time Service For Windows NT 4.0" that will tell you howto update your files. (You can also give MS Article Q258059 a try.)

by billc124

I am not running any time syncronization on NT 4. The article you mentioned talks about removing TimeServ for NT 4. I am not running this. Is this something that is required for Windows 2000 or not? Any more help would be appreciated.

Bill

by mebudman

You need to set the timeserver that the 2k machine needs to contact in order to set time. Open a cmd prompt, type net time /setsntp:[timeserver ip address list].

I usually use one of the atomic clock servers on the net.

Hope this helps.

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