Paul Howarth wrote: >> I have ntpd running perfectly on my desktop, >> and now I'd like to set the time on my laptop >> and other machines on my little LAN >> from the desktop. >> >> However, I haven't succeeded in this, >> and while I have read a number of interesting NTP tutorials, >> I haven't seen any which discuss what must be >> quite a common request, particularly now >> with everyone constructing a home LAN. >> >> I've added >> restrict 192.168.3.0 mask 255.255.255.0 notrust nomodify notrap > > Get rid of the "notrust" option. It changed its meaning and breaks > working as a server. Thanks, I did that, but it wasn't enough. In the end it seemed to be a problem with file permissions. I'll write a tiny HOWTO when I've tested it on another laptop, as I didn't find anything devoted to this topic - getting the time on a home LAN from a single machine connected to an external time-server - in my trawl through NTP documentation. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
