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Clock synchronisation over a network

I would like to synchronise the clock off a workstation with the clock that's running on a server. They are networked with Windows 98. How can I do this with Visual Basic 6.

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tylerd

right an application that sits on the server that generates a text file every x number of seconds with the current server time. Then the client can access that file like this:
open "\\server\c\time.txt" for input as 1

lermytte

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Hi EDDYKT,

I tried your program but got the error "can't find DLL entry point NetremoteTOD in NETAPI32.DLL". By the way we use Windows 98.

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Eddy

nrholder

You could shell the 'net time' command:

Shell "net.exe time \\" & ServerName, 1

Or create a batch file...

@ECHO OFF
cls
ECHO.
ECHO Syncronizing Time...
net time \\ServerName
exit

Replace the ServerName variable with the server you want to sync with.

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