[CentOS] NTP server

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 13:49 -0700, Jason Ross wrote:
> 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
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I think that you have to have administrative privileges or group policy
permissions to be able to do those commands in Windows.

Craig