samba - Jun 2006 - samba as a time server (newby question): time not updated

Colleagues,

I am trying to use my PDC as a time server. 

time server = yes 

upon login a group based scripts are executed. Scripts include line:

net time \\samba.server /set /yes

Time changes only if a user who logs was added Power Users Group on the
local machine. 

My users belong to either staff, pgrads, ugrads, vis UNIX groups. 

What do I need to do to ensure that time is synchronised on XP client
when non-admin user logs into the machine.

Thank you in advance.

 
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On 6/20/06, Ivan Teliatnikov <ivan@geosci.usyd.edu.au>
wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> I am trying to use my PDC as a time server.
>
> time server = yes
>
> upon login a group based scripts are executed. Scripts include line:
>
> net time \\samba.server /set /yes
>
> Time changes only if a user who logs was added Power Users Group on the
> local machine.
>
> My users belong to either staff, pgrads, ugrads, vis UNIX groups.
>
> What do I need to do to ensure that time is synchronised on XP client
> when non-admin user logs into the machine.
You don't already have an NTP server cluster in your organisation?
Windows machines do NTP quite nicely, with no admin rights issues,
since it runs as a system service on the client.

I know this only sidesteps the issue, but if you have NTP running
already, I think you'll find the results are better. This was my
experience, in any case.

David

Hi

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 07:17:53PM +1000, Ivan Teliatnikov
wrote:
> Colleagues,
> 
> I am trying to use my PDC as a time server. 
> 
[snip]
> What do I need to do to ensure that time is synchronised on XP client
> when non-admin user logs into the machine.
Why don't you just set up an NTP server on your Samba server and
then point all the WinXP boxes at it.  I think it's under "Time"
in the control panel, or if you right-click on the time in the
system tray.  By default it syncs off time.windows.com or
something like that.

I am not a Windows person, so I don't know if you can do this
via group policies or whatever.

Hope that helps :)

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@icts.uct.ac.za>