samba - Mar 1998 - network time sync

Unless there is a better way, I would do a

smbclient -L theNThost

and then grep the output for "Server time is"

If you get anything, you could use cut or PERL or whatever to strip off
the "Server time is" and then feed the date string into the date
command.

This would work pretty easily as long as both machines are in the same
timezone.. If not, start grepping for "Timezone is" also. ;)

This looks like a good feature for inclusion into smbclient.

----------------- Brian  Curnow ----------------

Thank you muchly. I will probably use that for now, until it is added to
the actual Samba suite (a smbdate package?)
> smbclient -L theNThost
> 
> and then grep the output for "Server time is"
> 
> If you get anything, you could use cut or PERL or whatever to strip
off
> the "Server time is" and then feed the date string into the date
command.
> 
> This would work pretty easily as long as both machines are in the same
> timezone.. If not, start grepping for "Timezone is" also. ;)
Thankfully, they are. :)
 
> This looks like a good feature for inclusion into smbclient.