RE: [ActiveDir] NET TIME command

[Wyatt, David]

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OK, so are we saying that WINS (yes, we have a WINS infrastructure) is returning the SPOKEDC (maybe alphabetically too???)

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Free, Bob
Sent: 24 May 2006 18:17
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NET TIME command

Net Time is using the <gag> Browser Service to determine the timesource in the scenarios you outline so all the foibles of the Browser mechanisms come into play.

 

You would be much better served to use w32tm to troubleshoot time issues in an AD environment.

 

IIRC, what you are seeing in the first example is the first system to answer that is advertising the TS flag and the second is your DMB (Domain Master Browser) 

 

That's based on old recollection since I stoped trying to deal with browser issues a long time ago :-)

 

If you checked them with browstat, I bet the browser flags for them look like this-

 

\\SpokeDC      NT   05.02 (W,S,BDC,TS,NT,BBR,DFS)
\\HubDC        NT   05.02 (W,S,PDC,TS,NT,MBR,DFS)

 

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wyatt, David
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:20 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] NET TIME command

Seem to have an odd issue when using the net time command...

 

Scenario:

• Windows 2003 FFL, single domain, single forest
• Hub/spoke site topology, London hub, other offices spokes

I have logged onto a Windows 2000 Pro desktop (that is joined to domain) in the hub site.  Open command prompt and type net time.  After a pause I get the following:

 

Current time at \\SPOKE DC is 5/24/2006 5:11 PM

The command completed successfully.

 

If I run the command net time /domain:DOMAINNAME I get:

 

Current time at \\HUB DC is 5/24/2006 5:12 PM

The command completed successfully.

 

 

Why is the first command getting a reply from a spoke DC and not the hub DC?  Is this expected?

 

 

Regards

-David

 

 

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