Kent West said: > I don't know. My Windows System Admin says that Active Directory uses > ntp (and he questions whether Linux uses that or some other protocol), > but since my Debian box stopped working with it, I was just wondering if > Microsoft's ntp is just a tad tainted, like so many of their other > "industry standard" protocols.
keep in mind there are several different ways to get time over the network(not sure if they are all network time or not). On win32 I think I used to use an app called "atomachron" or something. it was a free app, and worked well. but it was always a pain trying to figure out what protocol to use(it had an option of 3-4-5 different ones, I think all were different versions of NTP), then to decide whether or not to use tcp or udp for the connection and then the port. Eventually I learned to document what the specific configuration was after having to do guesswork on half dozen different systems. even on ntpdate, on some systems I have to do ntpdate -o 4 <ntpserver> otherwise ntpdate spits back 'no suitable servers found for synchronization' i think you can also synch against the 'time' service(called from inetd/xinetd) instead of a specific time server(I did this for a long time when I didn't feel like configuring ntpd), it works too but requires a slightly different configuration(different port/protocol version I think) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
