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I was asked today about configuring NTP for Windows 2k, so rather than just sending an email reply I thought that an entry on the forum may be of interest to others. I should point out that I live in the UNIX universe and not Microsoft, so the information below was picked up from the Internet and it does work for me.


You will need to find a time server to synchronise with. I have used "bear.zoo.bt.co.uk" If you are setting up many systems, its not a bad idea to set up one master server on your LAN to get the correct time. Then use that server as a local server for your LAN.

From a command prompt:

>> net time /setsntp:"bear.zoo.bt.co.uk"

Use regedit to check the entry in the registry as follows:

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
   SYSTEM
      CurrentControlSet
         Services
            W32Time
               Parameters
You should see an entry of
ntpserver:REG_SZ:bear.zoo.bt.co.uk

From the services menu select Windows Time and change the startup type to Automatic. Then press Apply

From the command prompt:

>> net start w32time
and
>> w32tm -once

A reboot is a good idea at this point.