Exactly why I used the word *should*. We have ~20K workstations and some small percentage of them behave exactly as you outlined. Manually you can do a resync, rediscover or bounce the service and they will usually pull in without a reboot. Sometimes the skew is so great that w32time just panics and won't set the clock, then the easiest thing I have found is just do a net time \\pdc /set /yes
Once it is set fairly close, w32time will usually be happy again...at least for the time being...pun intended :-] -----Original Message----- From: Terry Dickson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Times I know this is the way it is supposed to work, but I have a couple of XP workstations that stay on all the time, or used to. They would only sync when restarted. Some of the time they would sync on a logon, however most of the time they would only sync on a restart or a power off and back on. The last of these processes have been retired so I no longer have that issue. -----Original Message----- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Times If you haven't changed default setting, once it is synched, the time service should resync every 8 hrs once it has pulled itself in. 2 minutes is a bit much. Check the eventlog. Then try w32tm /resync. If successful, the time service should walk itself back in From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Times My cellphone and my DCs are all in sync, using the NTP pool, but oddly, now that this thread has come up, my workstation is 2 minutes off. Does a Windows XP workstation wait until a certain skew threshhold has been reached before it decides to resync the workstation to the domain or something? Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 ________________________________ From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Times My cell phone (AT&T), DC & local workstation all have the same time.... We're using 0.pool.ntp.org, On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:57 AM, David W. McSpadden <[email protected]> wrote: Even my cell phone is 4 minutes ahead of my computer. I have Cingular some of them have verizon. I am confused. ----- Original Message ----- From: Doige, Clayton <mailto:[email protected]> To: NT System Admin Issues <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:54 AM Subject: RE: Times Tell the users to update their phones lol, your puters are fine http://tycho..usno.navy.mil/ntp.html From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 12 February 2009 13:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Times I am pointed here?? tock.usno.navy.mil,0x1 ----- Original Message ----- From: Doige, Clayton <mailto:[email protected]> To: NT System Admin Issues <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:18 AM Subject: RE: Times Open a command prompt on your DC and type net time That'll tell you you're NTP source NET TIME [\\computername | /DOMAIN[:domainname] | /RTSDOMAIN[: [\\computername] /QUERYSNTP [\\computername] /SETSNTP[:ntp server list] From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 12 February 2009 13:11 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Times My users are complaining that all the computers are exactly 3 minutes off from their cell phones. How do I check to make sure I have the Active Directory time pointed to the correct time server on the net?? ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This electronic mail message and any attached files contain information intended for the exclusive use of the person(s) to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is proprietary, privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. 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