martinez cesar wrote: > Hi there! > > I´m trying to implement a NTP server on a linux box, the majority of my clients are windows XP and some linuxes. > > I´m trying to automatically synchronize those clients to NTP server, across DHCP options to try to send the IP and NTP server address as well as the correct time zone (UTC-X & UTC-Y). > > The results on my test on linux clients are that they take the NTP server address but not time zome but the windows clients seem to ignore any NTP settings. > > I´ve read the references on microsoft sites, but they are poorly on releases near to WinXP. I´ve modified the _register_ with the same result. >
I assume you are using the options (code 42) as specified in RFC 2132 Section 8.3. While I've seen these options used on Linux systems I do not believe that Windows implements them. In any case Microsoft assumes that systems are in an active directory domain and directs all of the Windows clients to pick up the time from there. > Those are the options I´ve used to send NTP server settings and > timezone:> > option pcode code 100 = text; > option tcode code 101 = text; > > option ntp-servers 10.X.X.X; > option pcode "CST6CDT"; > option time-offset -21600; > > I´m not using a Domain Controller(I don´t need it), so according to docs in Microsoft setting the NTP server address on a windows client though command line it seems to run OK, on command line but it does not keep the settings. > > net stop w32time > net time /setsntp:10.X.X.X > net start w32time > net time /querysntp > > In resume I haven´t found the right way to put my clients to synchronize with NTP server. The easiest way to do this is to doubleclick on the clock on the taskbar, select the internet time tab, click on the checkbox for automatic time synchronization and enter your preferred NTP server. You cannot use dhcp to accomplish this as Microsoft chose not to implement it. Danny -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
