I think those MS instructions are a little whacked in the "Configuring Windows Time service to use an external time source" section...

For instance...

1) Item#6 on their list... On my Windows 2000 Small Business Server, there is not even an entry in the registry for "MaxAllowedClockErrInSecs" - so should I be adding it? and not only that - they indicate it is a DWORD value - and cleary you cannot type text into a DWORD value.

2) Item #7 on their list - "Period" is not a DWORD value as they indicate - it is a string - so typing 24 in there as they say makes no sense...

It makes it difficult to follow instructions that are wrong because you figure that MS instructions would be correct and you start to second guess yourself and what you see on your machine!!!!

I did not add "MaxAllowedCLockErrInSecs" - should I??
I aso read where "Period" should have by default "SpecialSkew" as it's string value.

Help!

Thanks, Brad
 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216734/EN-US/

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   "Brad Pears" <bradp@truenorthloghomes.com> wrote in message news:OdOLgxMoIHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
   I have a windows 2000 SBS and want to synch to a time service.

   I did the following things...

   1) Stopped the time service
        "net stop w32time"
   2) Set the time server..
        "net time /setsntp:windows.time.com"
   3) entered "w32tm - once"
   3) Started the time service again...

   Now, will it automatically synch once per day by default or do I need to
   specify further parameters to do this?

   I tried the "w32tm -period 0" command but it just sits there until I use
   <CTRL><C> to get out..  Am I missing something?

   Thanks!

   Brad

Chris, I see what they are doing now for the "Period" registry key. So no probs there - other than the fact that it is not a DWORD on my machine - it is a string key.

Still have the problem with the other key I mentioned though (in point#6 of the instructions..)

Thanks, Brad

 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216734/EN-US/

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   "Brad Pears" <bradp@truenorthloghomes.com> wrote in message news:OdOLgxMoIHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
   I have a windows 2000 SBS and want to synch to a time service.

   I did the following things...

   1) Stopped the time service
        "net stop w32time"
   2) Set the time server..
        "net time /setsntp:windows.time.com"
   3) entered "w32tm - once"
   3) Started the time service again...

   Now, will it automatically synch once per day by default or do I need to
   specify further parameters to do this?

   I tried the "w32tm -period 0" command but it just sits there until I use
   <CTRL><C> to get out..  Am I missing something?

   Thanks!

   Brad