FreeBSD time servers and Windows clients

[Terry Sposato]

Hi Joe,

It is quite simple to do on all variants of Windows really, you can use
group policy mainly, XP, Vista etc. Have an option of specifying a time
server by using the time / date settings when you are logged in as
Administrator. 

The .bat file you posted also does the same thing via the cmd line. 

Regards,

Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
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takhoos at hotmail.com
Sent: Sunday, 2 September 2007 8:40 PM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: FreeBSD time servers and Windows clients


Hi all,
   I have one FreeBSD NTP server which syncs all my server clocks.   Getting
the NTP server running was a piece of cake following the instructions in the
online handbook.  Recently I was asked to sync a bunch of windows machines
(10 of them) to my NTP server.   Now I'm not a windows person, so I asked
one of the windows people to figure out his side since my side was up and
running.   He wrote this little .bat file to run on the windows boxes to be
sync'd.   Its pretty straight forward....just save it as a .bat file
(time.bat) and run it from your XP box.   Make sure to enter your NTP IP
address where the x's are below.     It seems to work fine for us.   Your
mileage may vary.  There may be better/easier ways of doing this, but this
is what works ok for us....   

Here's the .bat file....use it at your own risk....

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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@echo Updating Time Service....
@echo.
@echo.
@echo off
w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,0x8 /syncfromflags:manual
w32tm /config /update
@echo Restarting Time Service 
@echo.
@echo.
net stop w32time
net start w32time
pause
cls
@echo Verify your Time Server's IP Address and SNTP Flag of "0x8"
@echo.
net time /querysntp
@echo.
@echo Exiting configuration 
pause
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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--
Joe

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