topic Re: NTP Server in Windows Server 2003

NTP Server

Gan Seng Leng — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:41:11 GMT

hi,

I have setup ntp on my servers which is pointing to a router, router is syncing time from a external time source and it is working fine when i log in to the server as the time can be sync.

when i use w32tm /resync /rediscover to manually sync the time for test purpose, it gives me a error saying RPC server was not available.

Must i stop the Windows Time service first before i run w32tm /resync /rediscover command?or is that another command which i can use to manually time sync?

Thanks

Re: NTP Server

Igor Karasik — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:49:47 GMT

Is RPC service and TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper service are running?
Is UDP port 123 open?
Did you run net time /setsntp:routerIP command in order to define router as external time source?
What happens if you run net time /querysntp and net time /set commands?
Any errors in event viewer?

Re: NTP Server

Colin_29 — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:08:23 GMT

Assuming that you have configured it ok, net time /querysntp will show you that and assuming that your router can act as a NTP server, you will need to restart the Windows Time Service and it should sync.

I suggest that you use net time /setsntp: to set it to an external source just to make sure that it is not your router that is causing the issue.