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Netware 6.5 Time Sync on Windows XP clients
Hi experts,
How do I sync my Novell 6.5 machine's time with a time server (ntp?) so that my Windows XP clients adjust their clocks accordingly?
Sean
How do I sync my Novell 6.5 machine's time with a time server (ntp?) so that my Windows XP clients adjust their clocks accordingly?
Sean
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Assuming the XP clients are running Novell Client 32 (and not the garbageware M$ Client for NetWare Networks), then in the Novell Client Properties, Advanced Settings tab, make sure the Set Station Time parameter is set to ON.
If you want to know how to use a public time source for a Single or Reference timesync server, that's something else altogether. Is that what you want to know?
And, if you're wondering about active time synchronization using the Windoze Time Service in XP Pro, that can be done, too, if you really want to do that. Generally, the synchronization that the Novell Client32 does at login is sufficient, and using the Windoze Time Service adds a lot of unnecessary network traffic.
If you are using CIFS native access instead of the Novell client, by making a registry tweak or 2, or perhaps a GPO push (I believe the time service is in the Machine GPO settings), you can point to the NetWare server as an NTP time source from your Windoze client PC's. Make sure to increase the sync interval so you don't have all that superfluous network chatter going on that you would get by using the default settings.
And, if you're wondering about active time synchronization using the Windoze Time Service in XP Pro, that can be done, too, if you really want to do that. Generally, the synchronization that the Novell Client32 does at login is sufficient, and using the Windoze Time Service adds a lot of unnecessary network traffic.
If you are using CIFS native access instead of the Novell client, by making a registry tweak or 2, or perhaps a GPO push (I believe the time service is in the Machine GPO settings), you can point to the NetWare server as an NTP time source from your Windoze client PC's. Make sure to increase the sync interval so you don't have all that superfluous network chatter going on that you would get by using the default settings.
Also, you have to make sure the Windoze Time service is set up in client mode, not peer mode. IIRC, it defaults to peer mode, expecting the time server to accept input from the client, rather than simply getting the correct time from the server as an NTP client.
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Our problem is that our clients keep the wrong time. I believe the reason is that our clients already do the "Set station time," but that time is wrong. I want our clients to keep accurate time with the least network traffic, so I want the Netware server to sync its time with a public time server so our clients keep time correctly. How do I do that? Unfortunately, I'm not a Novell Netware guru...
Sean
Sean
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Also, to be a nice user of public NTP, change the polling interval. The default polling interval is kind of short (600 seconds, or 10 minutes.) Set it to at least 3600 seconds (1 hour) so as not to be "hammering" the public NTP server(s).