Topic: NTP and e-smith

[Trampas]

I configured my e-smith to use an NTP server. However my clock is not correct. How often does it update the sever's clock?
How can check the NTP operation?
Is their a way to force a time update?

Thanks
Trampas

[Kees Vonk]

Maybe a silly question, but is your timezone correct?

[Trampas Stern]

I finally got it working. It ended up that the ntp server I had found would not work. I also found that you can test the ntp operations by using the ntpdate and ntptime commands.

[Stephen Peilschmidt]

Hi guys,

I have installed the latest version (5.5) of e-smith in server only mode. I have an IPCop firewall and as per their recommendations I have installed the e-smith server on the orange subnet, with my local network on the green interface. I have configured access to the green subnet as a trusted network on the e-smith server. Email and web services work fine in the local network and also accessing them externally.

In the e-smith documentation it states that the server can be both an NTP client and server to the local network. I have configured the e-smith box to update to a time server on the internet - not sure if it is actually doing it though.

My problem is that when I install an NTP client on a W2000 box and try and get it to synchronise with the e-smith server it does not see the e-smith server as a valid NTP server.

Could this be because the server is on a different subnet?

Or is it possible that as I have installed the e-smith server in server only mode that NTP is not operational?

Is there anywhere where I could check on the e-smith server - preferably via the browser interface?

Has anyone got a similar setup to work correctly?

Unfortunately the manual is not very helpful in setting up the time synchronisation for clients other than to mention that it can be done.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks