[KLUG Members] NT Administrators

Mike Morrett members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 06 Feb 2003 18:56:47 -0500


On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 18:25:17 -0500, "Mike Morrett"
<flinchlock@fastmail.fm> said:
> 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.

YUP, WORKS JUST FINE.

> 
> 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.
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