[OT] Re: time server

[Kenn Humborg]

> Bruce Ferrell wrote:
...
> >   net time \\server /set /y
> > 
> > but it does work here.
> 
> 
> Does it annoy anyone other than me that this doesn't work on NT/W2K?
> Reason being, if you log in as a normal user, you don't have perms to
> set the time, and the login script executes as the login user, therefore
> doesn't have perms to set the time. Unless you change the user's perms
> or system policy (thus giving normal user the right to change the time,
> which is bad)

The NT4 resource kit comes with an NTP client called TIMESERV.
Install this as a service on your NT desktops and run xntpd on
the Linux box.  Your 9x clients can sync time with NET TIME
and the NT boxes can use NTP.

Unfortunately, it only syncs the time ever 12 hours, rather than
continuously like xntpd does.  This might be a problem if the
Linux machine isn't synced itself when TIMESERV checks.  Also,
if the NT box boots before the Linux box (or rather if the TIMESERV
service starts before the NTP server), TIMESERV will exit and
not start again until manually started or the NT machine reboots.

Later,
Kenn