samba - Oct 2002 - use samba timeserver for linux box

Hello.

I have a small network with a dialup connection to the internet. When 
the server is online to collect mail, etc I use ntpdate to synchronise 
it with a local timeserver.

The windows machines on the network set their time using the timeserver 
in Samba with a "net time ..." bat file. This works well.

I would like to synchronise the linux machines using the samba time 
server but have been unable to work out how to do it? Setting up an ntp 
daemon seems a bit over the top when there is a perfectly good Samba 
timeserver already running.

 How can I access the Samba timeserver to set the time on a linux machine?

Thanks,

Graham

Graham Vincent wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I have a small network with a dialup connection to the internet. When
> the server is online to collect mail, etc I use ntpdate to synchronise
> it with a local timeserver.
> 
> The windows machines on the network set their time using the timeserver
> in Samba with a "net time ..." bat file. This works well.
> 
> I would like to synchronise the linux machines using the samba time
> server but have been unable to work out how to do it? Setting up an ntp
> daemon seems a bit over the top when there is a perfectly good Samba
> timeserver already running.
> 
>  How can I access the Samba timeserver to set the time on a linux machine?
Use 'net time' :-)

In Samba 3.0 we have added a 'net' command with some of the same syntax
as the windows equiv.  The net time command has a '-S' option, which
will set the time based on the timestamp in the initial protocol
excachge.

Andrew Bartlett

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