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If you don't have the root PDC pointing at an external
source such as time.windows.com or tick or tock or something else, the time of
your entire forest is dependent on the variability of the clock on your PDC. As
much as it drifts, so will the time of your entire forest.
Again, if computers were good at maintaining time, you
wouldn't need a time sync service, you would set them once and they would always
be fine.
You *need* to sync to some other source or you *need* to
expect deviation. At worst you need to manually view and adjust the clock on the
root PDC every morning.
joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sharif Naser Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 2:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] win32 time service in domain controllers Guys, My network is simple two domain controllers( win 2000). Pdc is
the my time server for the domain. Now why my domain controllers time changed to 5 minutes late.
Is this normal or could happen.
What are the causes? Regards, -----Original
Message----- I believe
that domain controller which you use as the time source to sync other DCs will
be monitored and time adjusted to suit the correct
time. I have
made one server to sync with time.windows.com. Then let all other servers
including DCs to sync with this one server. Internally my time server is that
server which syncs with the external time source. There are
other time sources externally from where you can sync your server. The info is
at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q262680 in our
environment sometimes I do get serious problems with the XP clients as they are
out of time sync with the DC. From:
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On Behalf Of Sharif
Naser My domain
controllers synchronize with the system clock of one of the domain controllers.
No external time source servers Regards, -----Original
Message----- You don't
specify what system clock is off by 5 minutes but for fun I will assume all
system clocks in your forest. To that I ask... Are you syncing your forests to
an external authoritative source? There is a time service available because
computers tend to not keep time all that great and need constant adjustments.
You do this by pointing a couple of your forest root DCs (specifically anything
that can become the PDC of the root domain) to some external authoritative
source and then let the rest of your environment autosync to (eventually) these
servers.
joe From:
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On Behalf Of Sharif
Naser Hello
experts, I set the time properly in my domain
controllers & after one month the system clock is late by 5
minutes. How could this happen, how do I make
sure this will never happen again. Regards, DISCLAIMER: DISCLAIMER: DISCLAIMER: |
