Thanks Kurt. If all this IT stuff falls away, I smell a career for you in legal arbitration!
-troy -----Original Message----- From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Domain Controllers time sync software I think both Troy and Marvin are correct. It sounds like Juned does not have FW rules in place to allow time sync to work directly from his DC. Yes, he should use W32Time as Troy suggests, and should point to an edge device (or other device that has a time service running on it) as Marvin suggests, IMO. Klint Troy Meyer wrote: > How are you setting time? Sorry but I disagree with Marvin, you shouldnt use > net time for 2003 servers; its old and inconsistent. The new way to set time > is with W32Time. > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042 > > that should get your time syncing to the time source with minimal issue. > Make sure you are doing this on your PDC emulator at the top of the forest as > that is where AD time should trickle down from. > > -Troy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:05 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Domain Controllers time sync software > > What is the time-sync software hardware that the list uses? In our > environment - for FW reasons the sync with default time sysnc are not working > and we are in the process of buying some hardware appliacne with can provide > time services. > > In the meantime, does anyone has use some software option which can be > installed (safely) on Active directory DC's? > > Thanks, > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
