I searched all over this forum and MS and got no results for this error,
sorry to have posted a duplicate but when the search says nothing found,
whats a poor boy to do.
I have the same problem, all time servers will result in the error. Old PC's
without the latest patches and PC's with all of them. Same error.
The time sample was rejected because the peers stratum is less than the
hosts stratum."
"You Know Who ~" wrote:
> I am having the same problem, and switching servers does not do the trick
> for me. Running standard windows firewall (anti-virus fully disabled) so
> that should not be the problem. Win XP with latest updates.
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> "Nightowl" <owl@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
> news:PfTP8DPbe6IGFwC5@black.hole...
> > David, you just posted this half an hour ago in your second thread and I
> > just replied to it. . . I know it's frustrating when you're waiting for an
> > answer, but it's really better to stick to one thread.
> >
> > Never mind. . .
> >
> > I think the point of directing you to that Microsoft article was to have
> > you try some other time servers. Did you? (If you're not sure how, you
> > just go to Control Panel | Date and Time |Internet Time, click the server
> > name box to highlight it and type in the name of the new server. Then
> > click Update Now and see if it works :-)
> >
> >
> > David Black <DavidBlack@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Mon, 16 Apr
> > 2007:
> >
> >>When I try to sync my clock I get the following message: An error
> >>occurred
> >>while Windows was synchronizing with time.windows.com. The time sample
> >>was
> >>rejected because: The peer's stratum is less than the host's stratum.
> >>
> >>The first response I got was due to many problems with that server,
> >>"time.windows.com" was always the first thing to be changed on my WinXP
> >>systems. See if this article helps "A list of the Simple Network Time
> >>Protocol (SNTP) time servers that are available on the Internet"
> >>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/262680. When I went to that web page
> >>there
> >>was only one site http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ntp.html where you could
> >>download anything that might correct the problem. After downloading
> >>Windows
> >>could not open the downloaded file, so it was of no help.
> >>
> >>The second response I got was Install *both* updates if not already done:
> >>
> >>1. "Update for Windows XP (KB931836)"
> >>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...g=en&FamilyID=
> >>66f1420c-df2d-400b-a8a9-ef9061a9a3ca
> >>
> >>2. "Update for Windows XP (KB932590)"
> >>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...g=en&FamilyID=
> >>1b38b995-a6f2-4703-95fc-f504ef4e4f39
> >>
> >>I had previously downloaded both of the above updates and still had the
> >>problem. I would appreciate any help in getting this issue resolved.
> >>
> >
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