NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-13 Thread Jacques Henry
Hello, I am using a System based on FreeBSD 6.3. On this System an automatically generated ntpd.conf file is generated in order to synchronize the System clock with a NTP Server. I want to use a Windows 2003 or 2008 Server to act as the NTP Server. On the Windows System the NTP Server (Windows Tim

NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-13 Thread Jacques Henry
Hello, I am using a System based on FreeBSD 6.3. On this System an automatically generated ntpd.conf file is generated in order to synchronize the System clock with a NTP Server. I want to use a Windows 2003 or 2008 Server to act as the NTP Server. On the Windows System the NTP Server (Windows Tim

RE: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-13 Thread Jacques Henry
> > ntpd wont resync if the time difference is to big, as it assumes something > is wrong as you would have set the system clock roughly correct. To fix stop > ntpd, then do an ntpdate against the server. This should set the time. Now > run ntpd again > > also set the following variables to a serve

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-14 Thread Jacques Henry
> > The 19 minutes between when I sent my suggestions and you responded is > > hardly enough time to see if ntpd was slewing the time. Slewing 587 > > seconds takes days. > The thing is that ntpd is not slewing the time at all, even after several hours!! > > Are you sure that -x in there, tell

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-15 Thread Jacques Henry
> > If I may pipe up... Can you not set the clock manually, then let ntpd take > it from there? Seems like your clock would become synced a lot faster if it > started out "close". Sorry if I'm being naive, but this seemed like the > obvious thing to do. > > Don't apologize! Any input is valuable! B