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Time synchronization with Windows XP  In the last post I wrote
that all I needed was to make a bunch of machines sync their
time with one specific Windows XP box. That turned out to be
easier that a million blog and forum postings led me to believe.
Just fire up regedit on your newly appointed time server and
navigate to:   Change the AnnounceFlags value to 5 (from 10) -
this tells the Windows Time service to consider the machine as
"always a time server" and "always a reliable time source". Now,
you should be able to synchronize with that machine as follows
(run on a client machine):  w32tm /config /syncfromflags:MANUAL
w32tm /config /update  w32tm /resync  The magic ",0x8" after the
IP of the timeserver indicates that the request should be made
as a client (this seems to avoid the annoying "peer stratum is
less than host stratum" message that confuses a lot of people
(by default Windows tries to be "smart" about it, so it refuses
to sync to a wo