Jake McHenry wrote: > Hi everyone, I have tried running both the time, and time-udp service > through xinetd, and my windows xp machines on the network can't get > the time from it. But from those same XP machines, I can get the time > fine from my port scanning app. Can someone tell my why the built in > time sync app in windows xp can't read from the linux time server? > > Thanks, > Jake Hmmm... on my network, I use the ntp protocol to keep my linux/w2k/xp systems sync'd, not the time/time-udp services. Example: 1) Configure ntpd to sync with a couple of public ntp servers near you. Checkout: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html for a list of stratum 1/2 servers. I use stratum 2 public servers. BTW: Allow ntpd to synchronize. This process can take about 5 minutes or so. i.e. man ntpq 2) On your w2k/xp systems, set and verify the ntp time servers using a command prompt. C:\> net time /setsntp:192.168.9.1 C:\> net time /querysntp The current SNTP value is: 192.168.9.1 3) Run the w32tm command in test mode to check that your ntp server is answering queries. C:\> w32tm -test -v -once If you get something similar to the following snipped output, then your have correctly setup ntpd. Otherwise check the "restrict" statment ntp.conf. Make sure your network address is allowed to make queries. [snip...] W32Time: BEGIN:GetSocketForSynch W32Time: NTP: ntpptrs[0] - 192.168.9.1 W32Time: Port Pinging to - 123 W32Time: Connecting to "192.168.9.1" (192.168.9.1) [snip...] W32Time: BEGIN:ComputeInterval W32Time: END Line 2479 W32Time: Sending to server 48 bytes... W32Time: Recv'ed from server 48 Bytes... [snip...] W32Time: Adjusting time by 6 ms. No eventlog messages since time difference is 0 <1 minute W32Time: END Line 570 W32Time: BEGIN:SetTimeNow W32Time: END Line 1280 W32Time: Time was 25min 39.206s W32Time: Time is 25min 39.212s 4) If the above is working as shown, then you can safely start the "Windows Time" service. Check your event log. Steve Cowles -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
