Re: clock synchronization with domain controller

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Hello pete0085,

Is the DC which you are looking on the one witht PDCEmulator role? Check with "netdom query fsmo" in a command prompt without the quotes.

Make sure that no firewall is blocking NTP port 123 UDP.

To configure a client computer for automatic domain time synchronization

w32tm /config /syncfromflags:domhier /update

After that run:
net stop w32time
net start w32time

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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I have been noticing that the clock on my workstation has been a
couple minutes slower then the clock on the domain controller. These
always use to be the same and manually setting the clock on my
workstation is only a temporary fix.

Any ideas what is causing this or what I need to look at?



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