Re: Windows Time service to use an external time source issue

Hello Bruce,

I just wanted to update you on my issue. I have found my error. I was
using time.nist.com. Not good. I'm using time-a.nist.gov now and everyone
is playing nice now.

Thanks again for your help and direction.

"Bruce Sanderson" wrote:

My personal opinion, for what it is worth, is that the KB article you
referenced is unfortunate - everything needed can be done simply with the
w32tm command - there is no need to edit the registry directly, which is
unnecessarily dangerous.

If you're interested, you might find the thread "time sync from NTP in win
2003" in the newsgroup "microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory"
and the thread "domain controller time service" in this newsgroup
(microsoft.public.windows.server.general) informative. There are several
references to reasonably good Microsoft documentation in those threads.

See also http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830092.

Try again using the following set of commands on the domain controller you
want to be the root of your time synchronization hierarchy (usually, but not
always, the one with the PDC Emulator FSMO Role).

w32tm /config /syncfromflags:manual /manualpeerlist:time.nist.com
/reliable:yes /update
w32tm /resync /rediscover

In the first command, instead of time.nist.com, you can specify any NTP
server you prefer - see http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome for
a fairly comprehensive list. Use the nslookup command to make sure the
computer can resolve the DNS name of the server you choose; if it can't, you
need to resolve the DNS problem first.

It might be useful to use the following command on the other domain
controllers so that they will synchronize with the root of the time
synchronization heirarchy (the Domain controller that you ran the above
commands on):

w32tm /config /syncfromflags:domhier /reliable:no /update
w32tm /resync /rediscover

If that doesn't solve the problem, please post copies of the Event Log
entries that have "Time-Service" as the Source (System Event Log) from the
one configured as "reliable" and I (we) will try to help some more.

--
Bruce Sanderson
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders

It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.



"stargaten" <stargaten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:27ACA45C-7D7C-4821-A064-702AEEAE1969@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello all,

Well, I followed the KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042 to
use an external time source for my domain. I thought the procedure went
well
until I ran the following: w32tm /resync /rediscover and I received the
following message:

Sending resync command to local computer...
The computer did not resync because no time data was available.

I have used time.windows.com and my ISPs NTP server same issue.

Also, I'm receiving Event ID 38 in the System event logs.

I have also checked my GPOs Default and DC policy and the items pertaining
to windows time are not configured.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks



.

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