Topic: e-smith as a timeserver?

[David Barber]

Does anyone know what service I have to enable to allow my e-smith to act as a timeserver to my LAN boxes?

Thnx,

D.

[Carl Enset]

Hi,

IIRC on a fresh installation xntpd (the time server program) is not started automatically when the computer boots.

When a reference time-server has been entered "Time server" page of the e-smith web manager, then the time server starts automatically when the computer boots (or switches run levels).

nb.
xntpd accepts SNTP but not "Time" or "DayTime" queries from programs running client computers, as well a using NTP broadcasts.

I hope this helps,

There are number of client NTP programs available for various platforms, which use is a matter of personal choice.

[david barber]

Well, I just found this tidbit of info over in the advanced forum....

To have a Windows PC sync it's clock to e-smith, have it issue:

           net time \e-smith /set /yes

Worked like a charm!

[Stan Gaidis]

What I do for the 40-odd win 9x boxes that I deal with is:

I created a batch file called timeset.bat (or whatever)

put these lines in it

@echo off
NET TIME \server_name /SET /YES

save it on the machine root drive ( C:\ )

then you can either put it in the startup group ( easiest )
or
in the registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/software/microsoft/windows/CurrentVersion/Run

I use a logon script to get this done.

Hope that this helps