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Time sync problem is not letting me logon to a computer

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by singraham

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I have a problem that I cannot resolve. I have been having problems with my network client computers syncing time with the servers every since the time change. I have Windows XP and Windows 2000 servers and clients. I ran the Microsft patches on all machines and on the Windows 2000 computers ran Microsoft's TZEdit program. Everyday now I have had several users who could not logon to their network drives because of time syncing problems. In most cases I have the user reboot and they can get in. Today I had a user that cannot logon to his machine at all. Every time he attempts to do so an error message states the time between the client and server are not synced.

Here is my problem with this client computer. I cannot logon to that machine locally. I am not sure if I have just forgotten the administrator password or something has altered so that I cannot logon locally. At any rate I am totally locked out of this machine. Is there any way to reset local passwords if I cannot logon? Is there anything I can do that will allow me access to this computer and adjust the time syncing problem? Any help would be appreciated. If you could post as soon as possible I would appreciate any advice as I am really stuck on this as I have no means of entry into this machine now.

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by cg it

the domain admin user account should give you access to the local machine [log on locally]. If not you should be able to review local machine user accounts to get the admin account name and change the password.

as far as the new daylight savings time change on W2K , see this MS KB article on editing the registry [W2K] with a script in notepad [see US builds]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387/en-us

by singraham

Well, I was able to get into that client machine. I was not able to logon to the machine locally as I did not have a correct logon password for any of the local profiles. I also could not logon to a domain account because the time sync was off between that client and the servers. I was finally able to logon to the client computer by altering the time in the BIOS for that computer. I changed it to reflect an hour ahead of the correct time and then logged in using a domain admin account. This worked. I then went into the user settings and reset the local admin passwords so I would not face this problem again on this machine.

As far as the time sync issue I had run the Windows XP patch KB 931836 (WindowsXP-KB931836-x86-ENU.exe file) on all the XP machines. This machine was one of those that I ran this patch on. However every XP machine I ran the patch on returned a message stating "Update cannot be installed as a newer or same timezone update has already been installed on the system."

This client computer along with several others is still having syncing problems in the mornings when users logon for the first time for that day. I am not sure why specific machines are having problems while others are not. Any thoughts?

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