On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 15:35 -0800, Brian D. McGrew wrote: > Good afternoon, > > > > I’ve got ntpd running on a machine and syncing with *.ntp.org on a > regular basis. How do I go about getting all the other Linux boxes on > the network to sync to my local server? Is it as simple as ‘Enable > NTP Broadcast’? Or is there something else I need to do? > > > > I know this is a ‘Linux’ list but Linux people tend to know more than > Windows people … Does anyone know an easy way to get the Windows boxes > to sync time to the same server? ---- Linux ntp server - open firewall port (123) - have line in /etc/ntp.conf like restrict 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 notrust nomodify notrap # change network range to your appropriate network - restart ntpd service # /sbin/service ntpd restart Linux machines - add to /etc/ntp.conf restrict 192.168.1.1 mask 255.255.255.255 server 192.168.1.1 # again, adjust server address for the ip of your ntp server Windows machines... - net time /setsntp: 192.168.1.1 # again, adjust server address for the ip of your ntp server see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en- us/dnw2kmag01/html/TimeWin2K.asp Craig
