Whats the Lancs NTP addresses again please?

[SimpleSi]

Brain -gone - can't find them

 

Si

[Geoff]

Was, last time I used them, the following:

 

ntp0.lancsngfl.ac.uk

ntp1.lancsngfl.ac.uk

[twin--turbo]

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

 

ntp2d.mcc.ac.uk

 

Rob

[Geoff]

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

[twin--turbo]

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

 

Rob

[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

[ChrisH]

See my blog

[glennda]

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

 

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.

[twin--turbo]

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

[Geoff]

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:

 

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

 

and restart the w32time service.

 

net stop w32time && net start w32time

 

you can check its working via

 

net time /querysntp

[SimpleSi]

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

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

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

 

Si

[Geoff]

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

[ChrisH]

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.

[SimpleSi]

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