Hi, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 DCs provide time services for all clients and servers in the AD domain/forest. TIME plays a very important role in kerberos authentication. There is no need to configure your clients or servers. The configuration is automagically when their are joined to the AD domain. There may be one configuration needed though and that's the configuration of a reliable time source for the PDC emulator of the forest root AD domain (the first AD domain ever created in a AD forest). That reliable time source could be an external time server or an internal time server (another server or an atomic clock)
For more info see: * http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/techre f/en-us/Default.asp?url=/Resources/Documentation/windowsserv/2003/all/techre f/en-us/W2K3TR_times_intro.asp * http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042 * http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Configuring-Windows-Time -Service.html Cheers Jorge -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Active directory group Sent: 2/16/2005 1:39 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] Time server in windows 2003 !! Hi all, We are having one windows 2003 DC and one windows 2003 ADC and 2000 clients of win 2000 prof and win xp prof. Now I want when the clients logs on to the domain their computer should update the time of it with the windows 2003 server.Is windows 2003 has any inbuilt feature to setup it as a time server.Is there any third party programs which converts win 2003 server in to a time server? If yes what is the name of the products. Is there any opensource programs for setting up time server in windows 2003 or linux? Can we configure this in GPO? Thanks and Regards, K.SENTHIL KUMAR _____ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=30648/*http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/featur e/jibjabinaugural.html> This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
