Re: time sync

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i give up. tried more tests, put on udp test program and was able to send
and receive on port 123 just fine. still could not make windows sync with
time server. downloaded free nistime program that has been around since
win95 days, it worked first time. something isn't right with windows time
service i guess, but darned if i can find it.

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i can not get w2k3sp1-standard to sync to a time server. i have tried
time.windows.com, time.nist.gov, and even to a local machine. other
machines on my lan can sync to those sources, and they can sync to
the lan machine also. i have added port 123 udp and tcp to the
windows firewall exceptions, i have tried turning off the windows
firewall, and it still just gives the generic message that an error
has occurred... what is the next thing to check??


Is the Windows time service started?
What is in your event logs?
Are you using AD? If so, what is this server's role?



yes, the service is started. if i stop it and try to sync i get an error
about not being able to get the status of the last sync and something
else... so i presume it is running and operating properly.

well, i would have liked to quote the event log entries, but when i
opened it up it said the file was corrupt. if i remember from the last
time i checked a few days ago it was just giving periodic w32time message
about not being able to synchronize in some long period... following
links there didn't produce anything useful since it still doesn't work.

no, this is a stand alone workgroup file and print sharing, web server,
smtp, pop3, weather station, webcam, and probably a couple other
things... but no ad.

Is the problem still happening?

If you type
net time /querysntp <enter>
what is listed?

You might check out
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/ad131391-c018-4016-b61f-cd2ab0d8e0f71033.mspx?mfr=true
and
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Configuring-Windows-Time-Service.html
and








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