[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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