Martin Burnicki wrote: > Why Tea wrote: >> Can Windows 2003 server be used as an NTP server >> within an organization? The info from Wikipedia seems >> to suggest NO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol). > > Hm, the Wikipedia article explicitely mentions that ntpd *can* be used under > Windows: > --- <quote from wikipedia> --- > The reference implementation of NTP can be used on Microsoft Windows > systems. > --- </quote> --- > > There is no reason why ntpd should not work correcty on Windows Server 2003. > >> Did anybody have any experience with running an NTP >> server on a Windows server? Please share your >> experience. Thanks. > > IMO care must be taken if ntpd shall run on a domain controller. Some weeks > ago I've tried to start a discussion about possible problems if ntpd > replaces w32time. Unfortunately there've been only a few replies via the > NTP questions mailing list which never made it to the news group, even > though the questions mailing list should be gatewayed to the news group. > > So please see the questions mailing list archive for details: > https://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2009-August/024061.html > > Martin
Martin, You can indeed run the reference implementation of NTP instead of w32time on a Windows Domain Controller and I am in fact doing that (as I mentioned in a previous message). However the one issue you might have is that the reference implementation does not provide MSNTP authentication except on a Samba server which does not run on Windows and in fact the Samba authentication customization is not designed to run on Windows. As long as you don't care about that (I don't) then there's no problem. Danny -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
