I don't know about Active Directory. When I was doing Windows stuff I found that the only way to do this was with a third party product. Because we had no money we ended up not doing it.
One of the reasons I don't do Windows anymore is this kind of thing. One of the reasons that Windows ends up being so expensive is you have to buy something to do things that I can do with a little shell script on Linux. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Melin Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 6:01 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Active Directory and Linux time source well from what I've been told, all they want to be able to do is have the primary and secondary domain controllers get the time from an NTP/SNTP source. Everyone else will synch to the PDC/SDC They tried to do this against my z/os SNTP server (which I have all sorts of things getting time - all the switches, routers, gateways, and even the NT 4 PDC via the windows app 'abouttime' - but the want to be able to use the on board tools/functions of active directory, which seem to be wanting an SMB type protocol to handle the request (cannot get rid of the domain requirement that I can see) "Fargusson.Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] tb.ca.gov> To Sent by: Linux on LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU 390 Port cc <[EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU> Subject Re: Active Directory and Linux time source 01/12/2005 03:41 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU> Well, yes and no. I have not seen the documentation for AD, but for the old domain servers the documentation was confusing. I think that what it meant is that you can install a service that will synchronize the server with SNTP. Note that the "net time" command goes to the default server, so the "net time" command will show the synchronized time. This does not mean that the workstations are automatically synchronized. That has to be done in a different way. There is a /set parameter on the "net time" command that will set the workstation to the servers time. You could install a service on each workstation as well, but that seems like a lot of work. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Melin Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 1:27 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Active Directory and Linux time source All the documentation they have shown me indicates that it can get time from an SNTP time source like NIST - just not proving that it works. I don't know if they have to use the net time command in Windows Active Directory server to make it work or not..... I'd rather not have to set up SMB server... just to make that work. Thanks for te avenues of inquiry thus far thogh, everyone. -J ----snip ----- > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Fargusson.Alan > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 3:17 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Active Directory and Linux time source > > > The "net time" command does not use the SNTP protocol. It > does use a proprietary protocol that is not really part of > SMB. I don't know why they put this function into the net command. > > Having said that, I think that the Samba server does support > this. It probably needs to be configured. Unfortunately I > don't know how to configure this this. My Samba servers works OK for setting the time via the "net time" command from Windows. However, I am using the very old WORKGROUP concept (not even a DOMAIN). I don't know if it will work with AD. But it is simple. In smb.conf put the line: time server=Yes in the [global] section. Or use "swat" to set it. Then restart smb. --- snip ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
