Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Re: Time server question

How old are the Macs? Maybe they need new batteries?

Brian Lee
Manlius Pebble Hill School

> From: Ann Hamel <ann.hamel@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:48:36 -0400
> To: <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Time server question
>
> Please keep this public - we have AD login issues when our Macs stop getting
> their time from Apple.
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Carl Campion <ccampion@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Here is another technical question, it was wasn't accepted by 2 Apple
>> client/server lists (I don't know why)
>>
>>
>> I was informed today that the iMacs in one of our studios were displaying
>> different times. This is curious because they are imaged from the same
>> master that is configured to get its time from the school's time server.
>> Indeed they were off by about 4 minutes. When I went to the system
>> preferences and selected Date and Time they all synced to the server. I
>> have seen this occasionally but not for a group of computers. I am afraid of
>> them drifting more than 5 minutes from the servers. I would appreciate any
>> input.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Carl Campion
>> Archmere Academy
>> 302-798-6632x823
>>
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