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by pgreeff

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Hi. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated - it's driving me mad! On a Netware 5.0 SBS server the clock loses time over a period, average a few minutes a day. If Netware is shut down, typing TIME at a DOS prompt returns the correct time! It is a single server environment - could it be related to the PRIMARY, SINGLE, or REFERENCE setting in AUTOEXEC.NCF? Somebody told me that could be part of the cause, but I can't find any documentation on it. Novell's knowledgebase is full of time-related problems and solutions, but I can't find one that even loosely relates to this.

Please add your comments on this. I would be grateful.

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by ttate

Be sure to set your server to Single Reference time server. Here's a utility that works very nicely to keep the time up to date (if you have a full-time internet connection available to the server). I use the RDATE utility and it works very well!http://www.stanford.edu/group/networking/Novell/singletime.html

http://www.connectotel.com/netware/timesg.html

Here's more info on the clock-drift problem in SBS 5 (this is a goldmine of information for Novell products) http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/smallbiz/tips/t_clock_drift_sb.html

Hope this helps!

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