[SunHELP] Synching time with NT machines

[Steve Wingate]

My understanding is that NT4's net time command only understands netbios; it's not a real ntp so I don't believe it will talk to a ntp server, unless your Solaris box is running Samba and it can be referred to by a netbios name. ie "c:>net time \\solaris /set /y" would work as opposed to "c:>net time \\a.b.c.d /set /y" which probably won't. 
solaris = netbios name assigned to Solaris box
a.b.c.d = being the IP address of the Solaris box
The NT4 reskit has a real ntp client. Otherwise this has changed with Win2k.


On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:05:05 -0500
"Sheldon T. Hall" <shel at cmhcsys.com> wrote:

> In Message: 3 From: OFrayman <OFrayman at VerticalAlliance.com> To:
> "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org> on Wed, 31 Oct 2001
> 14:41:04 -0500 ...
> 
> >
> > I have been trying to use rdate to sync times with my NT boxes, but I get
> > connetion refused.... Please help!!
> >
> 
> I found that the easy way to do this was to run the Solaris machine as a
> time server and synch the NT boxes to it, rather than the other way around.
> 
> On Solaris, either run xntpd (see the man pages for details) _or_ add a
> proper ntpdate command to your root crontab.  xntpd would be more accurate,
> but wants more network resources.
> 
> On the NT boxes, use the scheduler or the "AT" command to run a "NET TIME"
> command periodically.  NET TIME has an undocumented "/yes" option to
> suppress prompts so you can run it this way.
> 
> On the PCs, I run "netdate" which, although its author says is obsolete, is
> an excellent freeware time-setter.  It would be a good alternative for NT,
> too, if your site's policies allow you to run outside freeware on servers.
> 
> So, my little site is a "time tree."  The Solaris box synchs to a number of
> remote Stratun 2 time servers, and I synch the NT boxes and desktop PCs from
> the Solaris box.
> 
> -Shel
> 
> 
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