[CentOS] NTP server

Jason Ross jross at medvoice.com
Fri Feb 1 20:49:49 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:43 -0800, James D. Parra wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Ehrlich [mailto:scott at MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 11:37 AM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] NTP server
> 
> 
> I have a Centos 5 64-bit server that has ntp service enabled.  Windows XP 
> with SP2 cannot properly sync to it for time, but can communicate with it 
> via samba, ssh, and anything else.    I also disabled the Windows 
> Firewall.  The C5 system does not have any firewall enabled.
> 
> Other C5 workstations can successfully sync to it via ntpdate.
> 
> What else could cause the XP machine to not be able to time sync with the 
> C5 server?
> ~~~~~~
> 
> Try this; create a DNS entry called ntp.yourinternaldomain.com, then plug
> that name into XP's internet time. I had a similar problem and changing the
> IP address to FQDN fixed it.
> 
> Perhaps it will work for you. 
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> ~James

Try running these from the command line

net time /setsntp:10.0.0.87   <====your NTP ip here

net time /querysntp

net stop w32time && net start w32time

-Jason




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