How to serve atomic time to windows comptuters

I have recently set up a netdate script in cron.daily which sets my
Slackware 9.1 computer to the correct time.

Now I would like to serve out that time to various windows 98
computers on my local network. Samba is setup for file sharing but I
don't know how to do the time.

Is there an easy solution?

Larry Alkoff

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Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
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> I have recently set up a netdate script in cron.daily which sets my
> Slackware 9.1 computer to the correct time.
>
> Now I would like to serve out that time to various windows 98
> computers on my local network. Samba is setup for file sharing but I
> don't know how to do the time.
>
> Is there an easy solution?

in windiows 98,

net time \\timeserver /set /yes

Larry Alkoff wrote:

> I have recently set up a netdate script in cron.daily which sets my
> Slackware 9.1 computer to the correct time.
>
> Now I would like to serve out that time to various windows 98
> computers on my local network. Samba is setup for file sharing but I
> don't know how to do the time.
>
> Is there an easy solution?
>
> Larry Alkoff
>

You could run the NTP daemon on your linux box and find an NTP client for
windows.

I thought win2k or winXP came with a time client of some sort, but not sure
what protocol is uses.

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 12:38:13 GMT, s wrote:
>
> I thought win2k or winXP came with a time client of some sort, but not sure
> what protocol is uses.

So far Mandrake 9.2 linux communicates with time.windows.com without any
problems.

M$ set it up as default on XPhome. Since I paid for XP as part of my
buying the pc, I think I should be able to use the server with my
Mandrake OS on the same hardware.

s wrote:
>
> Larry Alkoff wrote:
>
> > I have recently set up a netdate script in cron.daily which sets my
> > Slackware 9.1 computer to the correct time.
> >
> > Now I would like to serve out that time to various windows 98
> > computers on my local network. Samba is setup for file sharing but I
> > don't know how to do the time.
> >
> > Is there an easy solution?
> >
> > Larry Alkoff
> >
>
> You could run the NTP daemon on your linux box and find an NTP client for
> windows.

Chrony is perfect for this, see http://chrony.sunsite.dk

--Frank Elsner

"s" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Larry Alkoff wrote:
>
> > I have recently set up a netdate script in cron.daily which sets my
> > Slackware 9.1 computer to the correct time.
> >
> > Now I would like to serve out that time to various windows 98
> > computers on my local network. Samba is setup for file sharing but I
> > don't know how to do the time.
> >
> > Is there an easy solution?
> >
> > Larry Alkoff
> >
>
> You could run the NTP daemon on your linux box and find an NTP client for
> windows.
>

Windows has its own time-synchronizing client that uses SMB and Samba can
handle requests for Windows clients to sync time. From Windows, run "net
time \\sambaserver /set" to set the time.


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Andy Zhang

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> I thought win2k or winXP came with a time client of some sort, but not
sure
> what protocol is uses.