[KLUG Members] win woes

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>Hmmm... does anyone else have trouble with ntp over a firewall? I have
>an ISDN modem with filter rules: I can get 'ntpdate -uv' over it but not
>without the -uv: ntpd doesn't seem to have the same options. Will I have
>to actively route port 123 over the ISDN router?

Works for me.

>WinXP does have an internet time sync option. It turned up its nose at
>my ntpd, though -- perhaps because ntpd couldn't connect to any other
>ntpd server.

Yep, it does not like NTP.

>Also, heh, the Samba time server option says it advertises itself as a
>time server. Does anyone have a tip as to what that means, exactly?

It means it proved a mechanism via IPC$ where remotes can retrieve its time, 
thats all.

>And I read that Samba 2.99/3.0 has support for Windows groups? Is this
>anything amazing for us mortals, or does this really only start to count
>when you have massive *nix/Windows installations?

You don't need many users in order to need groups.  You can get some primitave
group support by building the 3.0 CVS stealing the smbgroupedit command and
running it on a 2.2.x server to correlate UNIX groups to CIFS/NMB/SMB/NT groups.