Re: REPOST: Gaining Time

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From: ptwilliams (ptw2001_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:08:12 +0100

Well, that's great news... ;-)

Let us know what happens 

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"C Hall" <anonymous@microsoftforums.com> wrote in message
news:O1cnplEaEHA.1840@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Paul,
The oddest thing: the time problem seems to have corrected itself. It's been
running fine all day, which it would usually go astray once an hour or
so...weird.
"ptwilliams" <ptw2001@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The other way round ;-)
>
> Without Windows Time (keeping the clients in line), Kerberos
authentication
> will fail...
>
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> "C Hall" <anonymous@microsoftforums.com> wrote in message
> news:efc10zRZEHA.136@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Question: Does Windows Time Service require Kerberos?
>
> "C Hall" <anonymous@microsoftforums.com> wrote in message
> news:%23DNkJoRZEHA.3512@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > I've ruled out the BIOS system clock as the culprit. It looks like this
> > first began May 21, very sporadically. I thought I was on to
> something--for
> > a while, I would always get a NETLOGON error at the same time (Dynamic
> > registration of one or more DNS records failed....)--but that stopped
> > happening as frequently.
> >
> > "C Hall" <anonymous@microsoftforums.com> wrote in message
> > news:O12qafOZEHA.3132@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > Wouldn't the BIOS battery get 'recharged' while the server is up? The
> > server
> > > is just under a year old--not that the battery couldn't die young! I'm
> > going
> > > to try to trace back when this first started happening and see if
> anything
> > > was added or changed, then go from there. I'll post my findings.
> > >
> > > "ptwilliams" <ptw2001@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:u7X5fiHZEHA.3112@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > > > If you're losing that much time in such a short space of time
there's
> > > > something wrong!  Your BIOS battery perhaps?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -- 
> > > >
> > > > Paul Williams
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "C Hall" <anonymous@microsoftforums.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:O2hLCHFZEHA.212@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > > I changed the time server to include only one external time server:
> > > > time.windows.com. I changed logging, so that when our time server
> > > > synchronizes with the external source, I get a log entry. I got an
> entry
> > > at
> > > > 1:40 pm that states that time was synched with time.windows.com. I
> don't
> > > > think that really happened, as the time is still off. Looking at the
> > white
> > > > paper, the time server is supposed to synchronize every 45 minutes
unt
> il
> > > the
> > > > clocks have successfully synchronized 3 times. Since I've been
writing
> > > this,
> > > > the time was correctly synchronized and in the Event Viewer, I also
> got
> > an
> > > > NTP didn't respond error (Event ID: 11). So eventually, the time
does
> > get
> > > > corrected at the auth. time server, but somewhere in between getting
> > > updated
> > > > from the external clock, I'm losing about 927 seconds.
> > > >
> > > > "C Hall" <anonymous@microsoftforums.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:OsfEYIEZEHA.3664@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > > > I'm baaaack!  The firewall is not blocking NTP traffic. I found a
KB
> > > > article
> > > > > on logging options for w32time, so I'm going to make some changes
to
> > > > logging
> > > > > and see what I get. Also, the white paper on Windows Time Service
> says
> > > > that
> > > > > w32time will only check the first time server (dns name or ip
> address)
> > > in
> > > > > the list, which is why they say to only put one in there. I would
> > think
> > > > that
> > > > > redundancy would be a good thing. Can anyone verify this?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > "C Hall" <anonymous@microsoftforums.com> wrote in message
> > > > > news:%23BvuO$1YEHA.2544@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > > > > Thanks, I'll check this out.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > "ptwilliams" <ptw2001@hotmail.com.donotspam> wrote in message
> > > > > > news:A9AA540B-C31C-4325-B352-3911F08BB89B@microsoft.com...
> > > > > > > Are you allowing UDP 123 out through your firewall from the
> PDCe?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > If not, you'll need to grant access from the PDCe role holder.
> > > > > Otherwise
> > > > > > it wont be able to synchronise.  Running w32tm -once -v (after
> > > stopping
> > > > > > w32time) will show you if you are able to synchronise time or
not.
> > If
> > > > you
> > > > > > can, it will get the time; if you cannot, it will timeout.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > -- 
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Paul.
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> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > "C Hall" wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Hi everybody,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > This is a repost from 7/1 (Gaining Time).
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I've tried several other time servers, but I am still
getting
> > NTP
> > > > > server
> > > > > > did
> > > > > > > > not respond and the time creeps up 15 minutes over actual
> time.
> > > I've
> > > > > > tried
> > > > > > > > using IP addresses and FQDN. I've not found anything in the
> KB.
> > I
> > > > can
> > > > > > reset
> > > > > > > > time by stopping/starting w32time. Any suggestions?
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