Bryan,
I'll try that on my test machine tonight. If that works; problem solved!
Thanks,
Duncan
At 18:11 01/22/2009 -0500, you wrote:
Honestly you can just click on date/time in XP and set 'internet' time
tehre to your router, in theory this would work?
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 05:13:58PM -0500, DHSinclair wrote:
> Christopher,
> No. My home network is really simple. 1 server, 4/6 XP clients, 2 GBit
> switches, 1 NAS, 1 Router, 1 xDSL modem. I have never promoted my server
> to domain controller status. Been told my home network is not complex
> enough to justify this.
>
> I will check out both of your links. Most of my MS research indicates
> that any "TimeServer" like tool/app I choose to run on my server requires
> me to enable services I just do not want/need to run ATM. I just do not
> have enough background yet. As I said, this year's project!
>
> What I'd like to have is some tool/app run on the server that sets LAN
> time via NIST.gov (or whomever). Then I'd like my LAN clients to set
> their time from my server; not some external source. If I could figure
> out how to just point all LAN machines to time check with my router, that
> would be another workable solution also; my router gets its' time from
> NIST.
> Thanks,
> Duncan
>
>
> At 16:06 01/22/2009 -0500, Christopher wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, DHSinclair wrote:
>>
>>> Bryan,
>>> Agree completely about AR9, but it is huge and has many nag msgs. I
>>> can hang with it because it does work very nicely. I think some more
>>> now about "AIR." I do depend on the Sun Java JRE business; it is the
>>> only way I can view the NIST sites for proper time. I am still
>>> playing with various "time server" apps I can run on my server to
>>> automate LAN time. I have 2 machines that just can not keep time
>>> worth a damn! LOL! I'll figure this out this year!
>>> Thanks,
>>> Duncan
>>
>> You use Active Directoy domains on your home network?
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042
>>
>> Check out the steps for "Configuring the Windows Time service to use an
>> external time source".
>>
>> I generally setup the time server to use clock.psu.edu, which is a
>> reliable strata 2 time source.
>>
>> If you don't have an Active Directory domain, you can just setup
>> Windows XP to use clock.psu.edu directly:
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314054/
>>
>>
>>
>> Christopher Fisk
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