[KLUG Members] NT Administrators

[Mike Morrett]

On Thu,  6 Feb 2003 08:42:20 -0500, "Adam Tauno Williams"
<adam@morrison-ind.com> said:
> >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
> 
> But how can it update the time on a WinY2k box without administrator
> privilages?

I'll check and verify "D4" works with just a "normal" user login.

Gee, let me drag out my older the hell notes someplace in my head from
1998........................

Oh, ok, aahh, I remember creating a DOS batch job that ran as a SYSTEM
service.  I think it ran at boot time, and then "sleep 28800" (8 hours).

I get back to you.

Later,
Mike

>  I have the same problem as Peter,  "net time" is in the login scripts
>  and
> points at our Samba server which is a stratum 2 NTP server.  I've sought
> a way
> to resolve this (have net time run before login as admin, etc..) but as
> usuall
> the M$ docs don't offer much enlightenment about such things.