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Oh that's right. I remember having to use tzedit back when we still had Windows 2000 machines when the EPA pushed their changes through (for better or worse.) That's exactly what it is. Thanks.

Hmm, I can try that after hours and see what happens. I did try changing the time zone to Arizona time on the NT boxes and that has worked so far. When I run net time, now it shows the correct time. I wonder if there is a Year 2K issue in there somewhere.

I've got a couple NT guests that are behind an hour since daylight savings. They are using the time sync settings and are keeping good time aside from the hour. If I manually adjust the time, and press OK, the guests immediately revert back an hour. Doesn't make any difference if I uncheck the box t...

I don't know what happened. But the day after my last post, the machines have caught up and stayed in synch. Even the NT boxes are matched up within half a second to the host machine, and I haven't seen any deviation for days.

Well, the machines were doing well all day. I just turned around and the PDC guest is 12 minutes behind the host. The BDC guest is 2 minutes behind. And the Win2k3 guest is in perfect sync. I wonder if I should just disable the Guest addition time sync and schedule a batch script to sync with a doma...

Honestly I don't even know how to configure an NTP server in NT server. Is there one built-in ? There is an NTP server running on the gateway which is what all the other machines use to synch. There is a logon script that sets the NT server time to one of the other synched machines, but of course th...

The guests are running clean install NT 4 with sp6a and do nothing but basic roles as PDC and BDC. The host machine has dual quad core xeons w/ hyperthreading so Windows shows 16 processors. It also has 12 GB of RAM I've alotted a single "processor" to each NT VM and 1 GB RAM. The average ...

That's good info.

I can definitely see them fall behind in real time though.

I uploaded the log from the guest that is 10 minutes behind. At the end I see a lot of "giving up catch-up attempt" events.

Yes the host is on 24/7. I did pause them yesterday morning and reboot the server, but there has been no pausing or anything since I installed the guest additions. I adjusted the timesync-set-threshold as well as --timesync-interval on the host for both guests. Right now, one of the guests is keepin...

Forcing the intervals to a shorter duration seems to be helping quite a bit now.

I'm using Virtualbox to upgrade an organization's NT domain to active directory. I've got the PDC and BDC running as NT4 guests on Server 2003 host. After a few days of running them in the live network, I was shocked to see the time was off on the guests by several HOURS from the host machine. After...

Thanks guys, working properly with credentials now. I'm extremely impressed with this product so far.

Hmm, yes it works if authentication is set to null. But I need authentication, time to slowwwwly read the authentication section in the help file

Thank you for your help by the way !!! got me going in the right direction

Hmm, got the extensions installed. Now when I attempt to connect via windows rdp it says the session is ended, then it says the session is about to end, possibly might be low on virtual memory.

oh... i get it. extensions != guest additions. thanks for the tip.