From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 0:32:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D628615AA9 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 00:32:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ibjoe@home.com) Received: from c392156-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com ([24.1.95.226]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991201083236.UVFS23946.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c392156-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 00:32:36 -0800 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19991201083350.00e13ae0@mail> X-Sender: ibjoe@mail X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 00:33:50 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Joe Bo Subject: time synching PCs to FreeBSD machine Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. I am runnng FreeBSD v3.2 on a 486 machine. It has 2 network cards, one on the internet and one on my private net. I use natd and ipfw. The FreeBSD machine keeps time set with ntpdate (not ntpd) to a local server on a regular basis using cron. I want my PCs on my private net to sync their time to my FreeBSD machine. I found plenty of PC programs, I picked NetTime. These programs typically say the server should be "RFC868" compliant. So for a FreeBSD timeserver I start timed. like: timed -M -F (my_FreeBSD_machine_name) -n (my_net_name) This works OK, I get a message "this machine is master". And ps ax shows it is running ok. But the PC program says "can not get time from this server". I know the PC program works because it works with other servers on the internet. Sometimes I get a message: /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP (my_host_ip):37 from (my_PC_ip):nnnn (I do have log_in_vain turned on). I'm no UNIX expert and I've been banging my head on the wall about this for a few days now, so I sure could use some help. If anyone has any ideas about this I'd appreciate it much! Thanks, Joe Bo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message