Whats the Lancs NTP addresses again please?

Brain -gone - can't find them :(

Si

Was, last time I used them, the following:

ntp0.lancsngfl.ac.uk
ntp1.lancsngfl.ac.uk

I have always just used the manchester computer center ones regardless of what network I am on.

ntp2d.mcc.ac.uk

Rob

LancsNGFL block access to external NTP (amongst other things).

Oh that old chessnut, one of the reasons we dumped CLEO was their port blocking.

Rob

OK - ta Geoff - now the reason for doing this is one of my servers is not keeping good time and we all turned up to canteen for toast 5 mins early because of this! :)

(all my clients have a net use time thingy startup batch file that syncs them to the server)

But now I'm struggling to find where to configure this on the w2k3 server - surely it must be easy peasy??

Si

See my blog :)

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Originally Posted by SimpleSi

OK - ta Geoff - now the reason for doing this is one of my servers is not keeping good time and we all turned up to canteen for toast 5 mins early because of this! :)

(all my clients have a net use time thingy startup batch file that syncs them to the server)

But now I'm struggling to find where to configure this on the w2k3 server - surely it must be easy peasy??

Si

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You don't use AD do you? surely you can just right click on the time and set it under internet time? I think its on when joined to a domain this is removed.

Yeah if your on a Domain the time is from the DC which needs to be set to get NTP time from the world..

Rob

In an AD environment you generally setup the NTP settings on a GPO somewhere. Generally I use a GPO tied to the Domain Controllers Container.

If it's just a single server setup then just set it manually:

Code:

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net time /setsntp:uk.pool.ntp.org

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and restart the w32time service.

Code:

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net stop w32time && net start w32time

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you can check its working via

Code:

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net time /querysntp

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@ChrisH and @Geoff I stuck this in a bat file and ran it and it updated my server time within 30 secs :)

Code:

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w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:ntp0.lancsngfl.ac.uk,0x8 /syncfromflags:MANUAL /reliable:yes


rem All you need to do then is stop and restart the service: and give it a chance to refresh it

net stop w32time && net start w32time

rem If you want to force a refresh you can use the command:

rem w32tm /resync /nowait
rem pause

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Am I finished now or will I have to stick this as a server logon script?

Si

Once you've set it once you're done.

There is only your clients to check as well after that although by default they should be fine. See the last part of my blog post about the client end.

Ta
I already sync my clients at logon with a simple net use \\server WPKG package - if was the server drifting that was my problem :)

Si