From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 17:43:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mango-bay.com (mail.mango-bay.com [208.206.15.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 954FB37B400 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 17:43:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from barbish ([63.70.155.64]) by mail.mango-bay.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52377U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id com for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:46:43 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" To: "FBSD Questions" Subject: ntpd as time server? Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:43:50 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My LAN is full of winboxs? Each one has this TSR pgm socketWatch. This pgm checks a internet time server and resets the pc time. Instead of 700 machines hitting the internet time server once a hour, I would like to setup ntpd to go out to the internet time server once a hour for a update to the FBSD machine and them have my windows LAN boxes get the time from FBSD time server. I could not find anything in the ntpd man page that talks about setting up ntpd as a time server to service time requests from other machines. What I read is that ntpd will broadcast the time down the LAN network for any listening clients to pick and user the time info. The win SocketWatch pgm does not work that way. Is ntpd the wrong software product for what I want to do? Does anybody know of something better suited? Thanks Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message