Bryan,
Well, I can not point to my router. My router does not seem to "identify."
But I was able to point all my XP clients away from Mother Redmond and to
my favored nist.gov! Very nice XP feature. Still that is an external source.
I'd like to internalize this to my LAN behind my router. And/or figure out
how to make the router a co-equal node on my LAN..........if this makes any
sense.......I could be so out of bounds!....... :)
Best,
Duncan
At 18:11 01/22/2009 -0500, you wrote:
Honestly you can just click on date/time in XP and set 'internet' time
tehre to your router, in theory this would work?
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 05:13:58PM -0500, DHSinclair wrote:
> Christopher,
> No. My home network is really simple. 1 server, 4/6 XP clients, 2 GBit
> switches, 1 NAS, 1 Router, 1 xDSL modem. I have never promoted my server
> to domain controller status. Been told my home network is not complex
> enough to justify this.
>
> I will check out both of your links. Most of my MS research indicates
> that any "TimeServer" like tool/app I choose to run on my server requires
> me to enable services I just do not want/need to run ATM. I just do not
> have enough background yet. As I said, this year's project!
>
> What I'd like to have is some tool/app run on the server that sets LAN
> time via NIST.gov (or whomever). Then I'd like my LAN clients to set
> their time from my server; not some external source. If I could figure
> out how to just point all LAN machines to time check with my router, that
> would be another workable solution also; my router gets its' time from
> NIST.
> Thanks,
> Duncan
>
>
> At 16:06 01/22/2009 -0500, Christopher wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, DHSinclair wrote:
>>
>>> Bryan,
>>> Agree completely about AR9, but it is huge and has many nag msgs. I
>>> can hang with it because it does work very nicely. I think some more
>>> now about "AIR." I do depend on the Sun Java JRE business; it is the
>>> only way I can view the NIST sites for proper time. I am still
>>> playing with various "time server" apps I can run on my server to
>>> automate LAN time. I have 2 machines that just can not keep time
>>> worth a damn! LOL! I'll figure this out this year!
>>> Thanks,
>>> Duncan
>>
>> You use Active Directoy domains on your home network?
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042
>>
>> Check out the steps for "Configuring the Windows Time service to use an
>> external time source".
>>
>> I generally setup the time server to use clock.psu.edu, which is a
>> reliable strata 2 time source.
>>
>> If you don't have an Active Directory domain, you can just setup
>> Windows XP to use clock.psu.edu directly:
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314054/
>>
>>
>>
>> Christopher Fisk
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