Reading network time from a batch file ?

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I'm writing a batch file to run on a vista machine, that among other tasks,
needs to read the time from our domain, which runs on a W2003 server.The
vista machines are on our network, but not logged into the domain.
So far the only way I've found, is to logon to the domain, connect to a
network drive on say the windows server, read the time, and disconnect drive
and logoff. This seems cumbersome, and as the batch file contains a username
and password, not too secure.
Is there a better way of doing this ? or maybe creating a user account that
has very limited capability, to allow me to read the time back into my batch
file ?

Thanks

"tonyb61" <> wrote in message
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> I'm not sure if this is the correct newsgroup, if anyone can suggest a
> more appropriate group I'll post to that ?
>
> I'm writing a batch file to run on a vista machine, that among other
> tasks, needs to read the time from our domain, which runs on a W2003
> server.The vista machines are on our network, but not logged into the
> domain.
> So far the only way I've found, is to logon to the domain, connect to a
> network drive on say the windows server, read the time, and disconnect
> drive and logoff. This seems cumbersome, and as the batch file contains a
> username and password, not too secure.
> Is there a better way of doing this ? or maybe creating a user account
> that has very limited capability, to allow me to read the time back into
> my batch file ?
>
> Thanks
>

Create a domain account/password that matches your local account/password,
then use the command below to set the local date/time.
net time \\server /set /y

"Pegasus [MVP]" <> wrote in message
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> "tonyb61" <> wrote in message
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>> I'm not sure if this is the correct newsgroup, if anyone can suggest a
>> more appropriate group I'll post to that ?
>>
>> I'm writing a batch file to run on a vista machine, that among other
>> tasks, needs to read the time from our domain, which runs on a W2003
>> server.The vista machines are on our network, but not logged into the
>> domain.
>> So far the only way I've found, is to logon to the domain, connect to a
>> network drive on say the windows server, read the time, and disconnect
>> drive and logoff. This seems cumbersome, and as the batch file contains a
>> username and password, not too secure.
>> Is there a better way of doing this ? or maybe creating a user account
>> that has very limited capability, to allow me to read the time back into
>> my batch file ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
> Create a domain account/password that matches your local account/password,
> then use the command below to set the local date/time.
> net time \\server /set /y

This is in effect what I do now, but as I said this means that I put a
username and password in the batch file in clear text which allows access to
the domain if the file is read by anyone ? The batch file is not secure.
Regards
Tony

"tonyb61" <> wrote in message
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> "Pegasus [MVP]" <> wrote in message
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>> "tonyb61" <> wrote in message
>> news:u$...
>>> I'm not sure if this is the correct newsgroup, if anyone can suggest a
>>> more appropriate group I'll post to that ?
>>>
>>> I'm writing a batch file to run on a vista machine, that among other
>>> tasks, needs to read the time from our domain, which runs on a W2003
>>> server.The vista machines are on our network, but not logged into the
>>> domain.
>>> So far the only way I've found, is to logon to the domain, connect to a
>>> network drive on say the windows server, read the time, and disconnect
>>> drive and logoff. This seems cumbersome, and as the batch file contains
>>> a username and password, not too secure.
>>> Is there a better way of doing this ? or maybe creating a user account
>>> that has very limited capability, to allow me to read the time back into
>>> my batch file ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
>> Create a domain account/password that matches your local
>> account/password, then use the command below to set the local date/time.
>> net time \\server /set /y
>
> This is in effect what I do now, but as I said this means that I put a
> username and password in the batch file in clear text which allows access
> to the domain if the file is read by anyone ? The batch file is not
> secure.
> Regards
> Tony

I did not say that you should include an account name & password into a
batch file. I said that you should create a domain account/password that
matches the account/password under which the batch file runs. When you do
this then there is no need to supply any credentials while the batch file
runs.