On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, James Melin wrote: > The windex folks are trying to get windows 2003 server to get the time from > my Linux box 'rockhopper' using the net time command from within a shell. > > the command and results are this: > > H:\>net time \\rockhopper > System error 5 has occurred. > > Access is denied. > > > They are telling me it has to be an authentication issue with Linux. I am > telling them that this is impossible since xntpd is providing a tcp/ip > service on a tcp/ip port. The service does not authenticate, and the tcp/ip > layer does not authenticate therefore it's not a Linux problem.
It's almost certainly talking to Samba's time service, not using NTP. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
