[KLUG Members] NT Administrators

Richard Zimmerman members@kalamazoolinux.org
Wed, 5 Feb 2003 23:10:09 -0500


> Now, under WinXP, things are a bit more squirrely. All the employees are
> set up with Power User accounts. This means that the net time command is
> unusable, as you need Admin privs to change the time. Is there a way to
> make this work directly from Samba (2.2.3), or should I try installing
> the nettime package to run as an NT Service to keep the time aligned
> from ntpd? Thanks.

   Me personally and at work...

   I run ntpd and broadcast packets on the local net. Then I use the k995 ntp
client from Tardis2000 on my 95/98/XP machines to set the time on the local
system.

   Goose