From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 20:59:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serv1.wallnet.com (server1.wallnet.com [208.225.162.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D69937B405 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:59:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (timothyk@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g0D1wER20825; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:58:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:58:14 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Kellers To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: ntpd as time server? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020112204957.B20440-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message