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Sync time from Windows Server 2003 hardware clock to Windows 7 Clients

Anonymous
2013-11-25T13:35:52+00:00

I have two Windows 2003 servers and three Windows 7 Clients in a WORKGROUP on a network through Moxa fibre/copper switches

Server 1 is the sole timekeeper so the other machines need to synchronise their clocks to server 1, but it is not working :(

These machines will be afloat on a boat and will never connect to the internet.

I have set server1 to use its own hardware clock by:

a) setting announce flags to a (10) in regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config\AnnounceFlags

b) Configure server1 as an NTP server: Add LocalNTP with a value of 1 to w32time parameters. See

http://support.automation.siemens.com/CN/llisapi.dll?func=cslib.csinfo&objId=22144503&load=treecontent&lang=en&siteid=cseus&aktprim=0&objaction=csview&extranet=standard&viewreg=CN

for details.

c)  Double click the time to open time and Date Properties then select Internet Time and UnCheck the automatically synchronise with an internet time server box.

This seems to be working fine, I no longer have errors in system event viewer.

For the Client I have modified the following

a) Double click the time to open the clock, click change date and time settings, select internet time then change settings and type svr1 ip address in the server field and click the update now button. I get "the peer is unreachable."

I was earlier getting a timeout here untill I added rules to the client windows firewall to allow port 123, both udp and tcp, inbound and outbound. This was the same result as turning the firewall off, so the firewall path seems to be working.

Windows firewall is turned off on both Server machines

For Server2 I have set the following:

a) Set announce flags to a (10) in regedit. (I'm not sure what this should be set to??)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config\AnnounceFlags

b)  Double click the time to open time and Date Properties then select Internet Time and leave the automatically synchronise with an internet time server box Checked, then type svr1's IP address into the server field.

This gives me "An error occured while windows was synchronising with 10.219.255.231" but i cannot see any errors in the System Event Viewer

Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong?

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-11-26T07:56:25+00:00

    Hi

    We have a dedicated forum support for Server Issues. I would suggest you to post your query on the following Microsoft forum link to get refined and exact responses. 

    Here is the link,

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/home?category=w7itpro

    Thank you

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