[Samba] use samba timeserver for linux box

[Graham Vincent]

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>Graham Vincent wrote:
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>>Hello.
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>>I have a small network with a dialup connection to the internet. When
>>the server is online to collect mail, etc I use ntpdate to synchronise
>>it with a local timeserver.
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>>The windows machines on the network set their time using the timeserver
>>in Samba with a "net time ..." bat file. This works well.
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>>I would like to synchronise the linux machines using the samba time
>>server but have been unable to work out how to do it? Setting up an ntp
>>daemon seems a bit over the top when there is a perfectly good Samba
>>timeserver already running.
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>> How can I access the Samba timeserver to set the time on a linux machine?
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>Use 'net time' :-)
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>In Samba 3.0 we have added a 'net' command with some of the same syntax
>as the windows equiv.  The net time command has a '-S' option, which
>will set the time based on the timestamp in the initial protocol
>excachge.
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>Andrew Bartlett
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Thanks Andrew. Just what I wanted :-)

Regards,

Graham