[KLUG Members] NT Administrators

Mike Morrett members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 06 Feb 2003 07:48:46 -0500


I have been using a time program called "D4" on W95/W98/W2K for years,
and it works just fine through IPCop 1.1 and 1.2.  (I did not change
anything in IPCop to allow it to work.)

It uses SNTP (RFC 1769)

http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/index.html

Mike

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 22:59:52 -0500, "Peter Buxton" <somercet@core.com>
said:
> 
> What a pain. :-(
> 
> Under Win95, each user's setup script had this:
> 
>   net time \\cares /set /yes
> 
> 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.
> 
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