[Samba] Re: Accepting Time Server

[Chris Smith]

On Saturday 07 June 2003 22:06, Tom Diehl wrote:

> > Samba's time service is most useful for Win9x systems as there are no
> > security constraints that prevent the above "net time /set" command from
> > properly executing. For Windows 2k/XP, users without admin privileges
> > cannot successfully execute said command so its usefulness in a log on
> > script for these machines is normally dubious. For Win2k/XP it is more
> 
> FWIW, This is configurable in 2K and I would think XP. You can easily let
> an unprivileged user set the clock. you just have to tell 2K to allow it.

Right, though not the default and I don't think it is particularly desirable. 
There are other defaults that I'm not so enamored with but I think this one 
is a pretty good idea.