>W2K3 is supposed to answer for both IIRC, It will in my experience. It will answer *NTP queries as "NTP Version 3, Mode 4"
Windows Time Service Technical Reference - Networking Services: Windows Server 2003: http://www.microsoft.com/Resources/Documentation/windowsserv/2003/all/te chref/en-us/W2K3TR_times_intro.asp?frame=true The Windows Time service uses the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to help synchronize time across a network. NTP is an Internet time protocol that includes the discipline algorithms necessary for synchronizing clocks. NTP is a more accurate time protocol than the Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) that is used in some versions of Windows; however W32Time continues to support SNTP to enable backward compatibility with computers running SNTP-based time services, such as Windows 2000. from one of the MS Folks- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nathan Muggli Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 12:02 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; Send - AD mailing list Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] time server I own the time service for Windows, so I can field the OS question. The NTP server in Windows 2003 is NTP V3 RFC compliant and third party NTP clients can (well *should*) be able to sync with it. When you say "doesn't seem to recognize", is there an error message? How does it find a valid NTP server? -Nathan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mulnick, Al Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 12:47 PM To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] W32Time and *nix It can work, what problems are you having? What kinds of errors and what are you using? W2K3 is supposed to answer for both IIRC, but that was in the archives. There are still some nuances that might be getting in your way. You know, the nuances about how an RFC is interpreted when it says things like "SHOULD" vs. "MUST" :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, Mark Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 1:51 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] W32Time and *nix Folks, I'd like to throw this back out for comments if I can. A while back I asked about using our current W32Time server, the forest root AD box, as the authoritative time server for the non-Windows clients on our network. I haven't had any luck getting this to work. If I remember correctly, W32Time is a derivation of the NTP protocol, (is it SNTP maybe??). Anyway, nothing I've tried enables the Linux and Unix boxes to sync with this server. One article I read said it will not work, but you obviously can't rely on everything posted on the net :-) Am I missing something, or do I need to maybe look at a 3rd party solution to handle all of the time services? What are some of you using for this situation? Thanks! Mark Creamer This e-mail transmission contains information that is intended to be confidential and privileged. If you receive this e-mail and you are not a named addressee you are hereby notified that you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this communication without the consent of the sender and that doing so is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please delete and otherwise erase it and any attachments from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. Thank you. Cintas Corporation. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
