[geeks] NTP on Windows

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
" 
" gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
" > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 06:42:46AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
" >> Can anyone tell me if there's a decent NTP implementation for Windows
" >> (XP and newer) that integrates well with the Windows GUI? I'm not
" >> looking to run the Cygwin ntpd, since that doesn't integrate well with
" >> the Windows GUI, nor am I looking for something like Tardis or
" >> W32Time, because they implement only SNTP, not the full NTP. I'm
" >> looking for clock-slewing, not clock-stepping.
" >
" > I'm not sure it has a gui, after all ntp does not really need one.
" > The instalation program does, and you can set it up with a few clicks and
" > the name of your preferred NTP server.
" >
" > <http://www.meinberg.de/english/sw/ntp.htm>
" >
" > It will if you select the correct options, create a separate user for NTP,
" > install itself as a service and turn off the various built in (but not
" > very useful) NTP and time setting functions.
" 
" Well, the main thing I need the GUI for is configuration.  This is going 
" to be deployed on 300+ machines by facilities maintenance people.  (Read 
" grease-monkeys.)  Editing text files, or even copying text files into 
" specific directories isn't really an option.  Click here, type this, on 
" a sheet of paper, is what I'm looking for.

on a single network?  with that many clients [and assuming it's the
real [x]ntpd], i'd prefer to nominate 3 machines to be local
timeservers, each with its own group of references, and broadcasting
ntp packets.  then set up all the 300+ remaining as broadcast clients,
very simple.

having said that, the hpux 10.20 gui for xntpd didn't support
broadcast config, though the underlying stock xntpd daemon did.  in my
case [an hp campus upgrading from 9 to 10] i wrote my own config
script as part of the upgrade suite.
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