FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Setting time on remote computer
View Single Post
Old Sep 3, 2015 | 11:16 am
  #1  
BigLar
FlyerTalk Evangelist
20 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Freeload Univ. Where are you sitting?
Posts: 14,818
Setting time on remote computer

Back in the day, I had a couple of computers 'networked' (Lantastic Z). As is still true of computers today, their internal clocks would drift. Lantastic had a number of little utilities, one of which was a simple command to set the time on the remote computer to my local time.

I now have a server that is isolated from the internet. Periodically, I presume Windows (on that machine) tries to access the time server, but it can't get out. So, over time, the clock on the remote machine will drift. What I was looking for is a simple utility that sets the time on the remote machine to my local time.

I figured this would be a simple task, but I keep finding things like setting up a client to reach a time server (no, I don't have access to the internet on that machine), or the most promising one was net time /set \\remote computer, but that wants to set my time to the remote time, which is wrong.

Yes, I can remote desktop into the server and manually set the time (or use the net time command above) but that's not what I want to do (no manual activity required).

I've got to believe this is a simple problem, but for the life of me I can't come up with a solution.
BigLar is offline