Bokkenka
06-13-2002, 10:25 PM
I'm a bit of a chronophile... I track satellites and the space shuttle, whenever it's up, so knowing the precise time is important to me. I've gone through a few Windows time-sync programs, Analog X's (http://www.analogx.com) Atomic TimeSync, and ThinkMan's (http://www.thinkman.com) Dimension 4 (D4), to mention a couple. I had finally settled on Atomic TimeSync because it was small, simple, and I tend to like Mark's programs. I had never done anything with Linux other than ntpdate every now and then.
I built a router/file-server (RH7.2) box for work this week. It serves a few Win2000 and WinXP boxes. I had aome time as I was transferring over gigabytes of data, so I decided to mess around with NTP to serve the LAN.
The biggest problem was going through the list of secondary servers at NTP.org (http://www.ntp.org) to find some that would respond. Most didn't for some reason. Didn't take too long after that and the Linux box was keeping time. I found a LOT of pages that said don't use XNTP.
Then, I ran across a page that said Windows programs couldn't sync with NTP. I searched for awhile and came across a page that said you could work-around with Samba... Just set "timeserver = yes" in your smb.conf, and run "net time \\smbservername /set /yes" from a Windows command prompt. That worked, but I didn't really like it.
I finally found a page that said D4 could get time from NTP. I downloaded it and it worked on the Win2000 boxes, but not the WinXPs. I then found a page that said WinXP has it's own time-sync, so you have to disable it to get D4 to work. Of course, I can't find that page right now, but you have to turn off internet time checking in control panel \ date and time, and in control panel \ admin tools \ services \ windows time. Now everything is in sync.
The files were still transfering, so I OpenSSHed (http://www.openssh.org) to my home router, also RH7.2, and set up NTP on my home LAN. From the router, I jumped around to my other couple Linux boxes and did the same. Just had to scp D4 over to my home LAN and install on my new laptop when I got off work. I'll be installing Linux on that in a couple weeks.
Oh, safety feature... I have to dial-in to open the ssh port to the outside world. Then I can get in through the broadband.
I built a router/file-server (RH7.2) box for work this week. It serves a few Win2000 and WinXP boxes. I had aome time as I was transferring over gigabytes of data, so I decided to mess around with NTP to serve the LAN.
The biggest problem was going through the list of secondary servers at NTP.org (http://www.ntp.org) to find some that would respond. Most didn't for some reason. Didn't take too long after that and the Linux box was keeping time. I found a LOT of pages that said don't use XNTP.
Then, I ran across a page that said Windows programs couldn't sync with NTP. I searched for awhile and came across a page that said you could work-around with Samba... Just set "timeserver = yes" in your smb.conf, and run "net time \\smbservername /set /yes" from a Windows command prompt. That worked, but I didn't really like it.
I finally found a page that said D4 could get time from NTP. I downloaded it and it worked on the Win2000 boxes, but not the WinXPs. I then found a page that said WinXP has it's own time-sync, so you have to disable it to get D4 to work. Of course, I can't find that page right now, but you have to turn off internet time checking in control panel \ date and time, and in control panel \ admin tools \ services \ windows time. Now everything is in sync.
The files were still transfering, so I OpenSSHed (http://www.openssh.org) to my home router, also RH7.2, and set up NTP on my home LAN. From the router, I jumped around to my other couple Linux boxes and did the same. Just had to scp D4 over to my home LAN and install on my new laptop when I got off work. I'll be installing Linux on that in a couple weeks.
Oh, safety feature... I have to dial-in to open the ssh port to the outside world. Then I can get in through the broadband.