Topic: timeserver?

[Timothée Bastin]

Hello,

I'm using a timeserver's IP for synchronising the time on my e-smith server. But, I wondered if my windows clients are synchronised now as well. Does anyone know if or how my windows clients can get the exact time from my synchronised e-smith server?

Timothée

[Dan Brown]

There's a program called K9 that will do the trick.  I'll see if I can find a link when I get home.

[Timothée Bastin]

If you could....that would be fine, because I can't find that programm

[Timothée Bastin]

I found it!!! This is the homesite of K9:
http://www.kaska.demon.co.uk/k9.htm

[phil]

I also would like to syc my win98 machines,

So I did a port scan on my e-smith machine, and there does not seem to be a ntp port open for broadcasts??

please advise

[Charlie Brady]

phil wrote:
 
> I also would like to syc my win98 machines,

Just do:

net time \servername /set /yes

If you enable domain logons in win98, this will happen automatically every time anyone logs on (for e-smith 4.1, that is).

Regards

Charlie

[Henry]

The K9 product leaves spyware on win9x machines. Be aware.

Henry

[Des Dougan]

If K9 doesn't meet your needs, try Automachron from One Guy Coding (http://oneguycoding.com/). It's small and unobtrusive and works excellently.

[Timothée Bastin]

phil wrote:
I also would like to sync my win98 machines,

Charlie wrote:
Just do:
net time \servername /set /yes

If you enable domain logons in win98, this will happen automatically every time anyone logs on (for e-smith 4.1, that is).


Well, I have e-smith 4.1 final but at my client I use WinME. I included this line in the autoexec.bat but WinME seems to do nothing with it. How can I test this and is it right that winME ignores this?

Timothée

P.S. What do you mean with "if you enable domain logons in win98"? I only log in via client for ms networking.

[Boris]

It's in the properties for "Client for Microsoft Networks" in the networks propeties.
Check the box "Logon to WindowsNT domain" and put the domain name (Often the same as workgroup name) This will force windows workstation  execute "logon.bat" script from server every time you login in.

[Pierluigi Miranda]

Just a 2 cent suggestion: have a look at AboutTime, available at Paul Lutus' site, http://www.arachnoid.com, in the download page.

It's a time client/server that can use many time protocols to keep a PC time in sync, or serve the time over a network.

I am using it as a client only on a couple of PCs whose time has to be precise, and I like it very much: it is lean and mean piece of software

And it's "careware", too - for an explanation of the term, look at Paul Lutus' site.

--

Pierluigi Miranda

[Steve lewis]

i have found many easy to use free ware including Atomic time sync at www.analogx.com

[Timothée Bastin]

Well, that's not what I'm really searching for. I don't want to load an extra program for that and don't want to synchronize from an extern server. Wat I really want is that my e-smith server is synchronized by an external server and that my windows clients will be synchronized by my own e-smith server!

[Barry Rogers]

Hello,

I also wanted to set the time on the Clients-W98 to our server-NoddyII. Before the eSmith they all had the Atomic Clock software and it worked fine. But seeing as the server is there, I saw no sense in them all synching off an outside system.

The file to change on the eSmith box is /home/netlogon/netlogon.bat
All you have to do is remove the REM at the beginning of a line to make it active, then substitute your server name for the \servername part
Set one of the Clients to a time 1 hour out and login. The Clients all work like this.

Hope this helped.

Barry Rogers

[Timothée Bastin]

Hi Barry,

Thanx for your tip. I changed the file netlogon.bat on my e-smith linux server and removed the REM in front of the //servername line. I then changed "servername" in the ip address of my server (192.168.1.1) and also removed the REM in front of the home drive mapping line.

Then I changed the time at my win98 client from 20:16 hrs to 22:16hrs and rebooted my pc. But....the time still is 22:16 hrs and there is no home drive mapped at all! Do you know if I made a mistake?

Timothée