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Using windows 2000 server as network timeserver

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At work we are running a Novell network with windows xp clients. We have two windows 2000 DNS servers as well.

The clients have their time updated whenever they login to the novell network. The problem is that many of our important machines don't login to Novell, they logon as workstation only and don't get their time updated.

I would like to point the windows time synchronization manager on our XP machines to our DNS servers and have it pull the time from there. I found the registry entry to change how often the XP client updates, but I need to know how to pull the time from the 2000 server. I assume I have to setup the server as a NTP server.

If anyone could help me with this I'd appreciate it.

Thanks
 
If you Netware boxes are alreday running NTP servers, why not point your workstations at them?

Just start the Windows time service on the workstation and run "net time /SETSNTP:<novell_server_dns_name>"

If you need to use NTP services on a Windows 2000 server, just set a target for it to sychronize from, and then use the command above to point your workstations at it instead of the Novell server.

To enable a non-domain controller 2000 server to act as an SNTP server, see information about the LocalNTP value in this article: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/Windows2000Pro/maintain/w2kmngd/16_2kwts.mspx

The steps for a 2003 server are different, and not well documented that I could find, but from comparing a 2003 DC with a member server, is appears that setting

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpServer\Enabled

to 1 is all that is required to make a memeber server act as an SNTP server.
 
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