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Title: timeserver?
Post by: Timothée Bastin on February 16, 2001, 10:14:33 PM: 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
Title: Re: timeserver?
Post by: Dan Brown on February 16, 2001, 10:28:30 PM: There's a program called K9 that will do the trick. I'll see if I can find a link when I get home.
Title: Re: timeserver?
Post by: Timothée Bastin on February 16, 2001, 11:50:31 PM: If you could....that would be fine, because I can't find that programm
Title: Re: timeserver?
Post by: Timothée Bastin on February 17, 2001, 12:14:02 AM: I found it!!! This is the homesite of K9:
http://www.kaska.demon.co.uk/k9.htm
Title: Re: timeserver?
Post by: phil on February 17, 2001, 02:19:29 AM: 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
Title: Re: timeserver?
Post by: Charlie Brady on February 17, 2001, 02:29:21 AM: 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
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Post by: Henry on February 17, 2001, 08:09:14 AM: The K9 product leaves spyware on win9x machines. Be aware.

Henry
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Post by: Des Dougan on February 17, 2001, 08:17:52 AM: If K9 doesn't meet your needs, try Automachron from One Guy Coding (http://oneguycoding.com/). It's small and unobtrusive and works excellently.
Title: Re: timeserver?
Post by: Timothée Bastin on February 17, 2001, 04:53:42 PM: 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.
Title: Re: timeserver?
Post by: Boris on February 18, 2001, 04:17:00 AM: 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.
Title: Re: timeserver?
Post by: Pierluigi Miranda on February 21, 2001, 04:04:16 PM: 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
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Post by: Steve lewis on February 23, 2001, 03:46:39 PM: i have found many easy to use free ware including Atomic time sync at www.analogx.com
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Post by: Timothée Bastin on February 23, 2001, 06:25:43 PM: 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!
Title: Re: timeserver?
Post by: Barry Rogers on April 20, 2001, 10:57:40 AM: 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
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Post by: Timothée Bastin on April 20, 2001, 11:21:43 PM: 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
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Post by: Timothée Bastin on April 21, 2001, 02:23:44 AM: Sorry, I made a mistake :) I forgot to blink the option in windows to log on to the e-smith domain. Now, it is working. Thanks Barry for this simple but efficient solution!

Timothée
Title: Re: timeserver?
Post by: Tibor Kubinyi on July 14, 2001, 02:42:18 AM: If you are not using your e-smith-server as a Windows domain controler you can still synchronize your Windows boxes using the Task Scheduler.
In Windows 98/Me/2000 Task Scheduler add a new automatic task:

net time \your-e-smith-servername /SET /YES

You can configure it to run every time you start-up the machine or on periodical basis.