[KLUG Members] ntpd

[Mike Morrett]

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:44:50 -0500, "Peter Buxton" <somercet@core.com>
said:
> 
> Well, W32time, which is controlled by the system command w32tm.exe, is
> the NT service for time tracking. Once I discovered that ntpd had been
> working overnight, I found it had synched the one XP box I had been
> fiddling with.
> 
> Thanks for all the help everyone gave. I'll try to relocate and post the
> w32tm.exe commands I used, too.
> 
> I haven't tested the following .reg file yet, but probably will sometime
> tomorrow: 
> 
> 
> REGEDIT4
> 
> ;
> ; This will allow us to co-ordinate time with a Unix ntpd server.
> ;
>

If I remember my previous NT lifetime, ControlSet001 and 002 are not
actually the current settings, but
from successful previous boots.  A successful boot, copies the
CurrentControlSet to ControlSet001, and copies
ControlSet001 to CurrentSet002...

this should be "CurrentControlSet"
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                             v
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\W32Time\Parameters]
> "NtpServer"="time,0x1"
> "Type"="NTP"
> ; was "time.microsoft.com,0x1" and, um, "NT5DS" or something 
> ; similar (not "SNTP", I would have remembered that).