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Date:      Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:58:14 -0500 (EST)
From:      Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com>
To:        Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
Cc:        FBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ntpd as time server?
Message-ID:  <20020112204957.B20440-100000@serv1.wallnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOEEFDCMAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>

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I used Samba to make my FreeBSD box look like an NT domain member and
set-up my Windows 2k workstations with:

net time \\"FreeBSD box NETBIOS name" /s /u

and have:

# ntpdate time.apple.com

cron'd on the FreeBSD box to update it's time daily

(check Win Help on the net time switches, I set this up a while back, have
never had to fiddle with it, so I might not have the syntax of the /s and
/u switches correctly)

Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT


On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:

> 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
>
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