[todd231]

I have close to 20 servers spread out over the US. We're using SonicWALL's to link them together without corporate office. Each server is a DC for each respective location.

All of my servers, except for one, are showing a correct time that's on my main DC at corporate.

The server in question shows 14 minutes fast. When I do a NET TIME on the server, it says it's getting time from one of my servers in Texas (which isn't a problem because it's time is correct), however it apparently isn't because it's fast.

Now, when I do a NET TIME /SET it reverts to the correct time but switches back to 14 minutes fast within a minute.

All of my users at that location are having the same time issues.

Normally this wouldn't be a huge deal, but the users are getting time sync errors when trying to access files on servers outside of their physical location, namely my corporate location...

One thing I haven't tried is forcing replication. I'm going to try that now and will report back. In the mean time, if any has any clues or knowledge about a fix or a road map for me to fix this, I'd appreciate it!

Thanks ya'll!

Todd

[todd231]

Replication did it!

Awesome... Just forced replication and the server synced up.

Now to figure out why replication is acting like a donkey...

thanks,
Todd

[todd231]

I love it when I figure stuff out like that...

[wullieb1]

Check how often your systems are set to replicate and ensure that your VPN's are up and running.

Any events reporting replication problems??

Run a netdiag and dcdiag as well to be sure.

[redearl]

What time settings are you using?
please type w32tm /dumpreg /subkey: paramneters and repost
if setup correctly the system should use any of the DC's to sync it's time.
do you use an external (internet) time server to sync the systems?

[todd231]

C:\Users\todd>w32tm /dumpreg /subkey:

Value Name Value Type Value Data
--------------------------------------------------------

DisplayName REG_SZ @%SystemRoot%\system32\w32time.dll,-2
00
ImagePath REG_EXPAND_SZ %SystemRoot%\system32\svchost.exe -k
LocalService
Description REG_SZ @%SystemRoot%\system32\w32time.dll,-2
01
ObjectName REG_SZ NT AUTHORITY\LocalService
ErrorControl REG_DWORD 1
Start REG_DWORD 2
Type REG_DWORD 32
ServiceSidType REG_DWORD 1
RequiredPrivileges REG_MULTI_SZ SeAuditPrivilege, SeChangeNotifyPrivi
lege, SeCreateGlobalPrivilege, SeImpersonatePrivilege, SeSystemTimePrivilege
FailureActions REG_BINARY 8051010000000000000000000300000014000
0000100000060EA000001000000C0D40100000000000000000 0


We are using the default domain policy to grab the time and it's synced with a NIST server.


It's worked fine since this last post of mine but one of our locations in Texas has started getting goofy the last day or two.

[shahidjm]

Originally Posted by todd231

C:\Users\todd>w32tm /dumpreg /subkey:

Value Name Value Type Value Data
--------------------------------------------------------

DisplayName REG_SZ @%SystemRoot%\system32\w32time.dll,-2
00
ImagePath REG_EXPAND_SZ %SystemRoot%\system32\svchost.exe -k
LocalService
Description REG_SZ @%SystemRoot%\system32\w32time.dll,-2
01
ObjectName REG_SZ NT AUTHORITY\LocalService
ErrorControl REG_DWORD 1
Start REG_DWORD 2
Type REG_DWORD 32
ServiceSidType REG_DWORD 1
RequiredPrivileges REG_MULTI_SZ SeAuditPrivilege, SeChangeNotifyPrivi
lege, SeCreateGlobalPrivilege, SeImpersonatePrivilege, SeSystemTimePrivilege
FailureActions REG_BINARY 8051010000000000000000000300000014000
0000100000060EA000001000000C0D40100000000000000000 0


We are using the default domain policy to grab the time and it's synced with a NIST server.


It's worked fine since this last post of mine but one of our locations in Texas has started getting goofy the last day or two.

Hi Todd,

I am facing the same problem on my exch server. Can you please tell me how did you solved this problem.

Shahid Jamal

[Ossian]

From post #2 he forced replication and the servers adjusted their time to match the PDC emulator