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November 11th, 2008, 01:22 PM
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| Can Mac OS X syncronize time with Windows Server 2003?
One day the users started to complain that the mac we have can't login to the domain so I sat down for 30-45minutes trying to figure out what had caused it - only to figure out that it was simply because the time was off by 5 minutes so the domain controller refused the connection. Is there a way to syncronize the time?
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November 11th, 2008, 03:12 PM
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Yes turn on the Automatic Time syncing in System Preferences->Date & Time and put in the NTP (Network Time Server) manually to sync to. In the Windows Domain server point to the same NTP server.
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November 11th, 2008, 04:48 PM
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Or, add the NTP service to the Windows Server, and point all computers to the Windows server as the authoritative NTP server to synchronize with. Reduces network load, since only the Windows server will sync with an outside source and all other computer simply synchronize to the Windows server instead of also hitting up the internet for their time. Either way works, though.
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