Samba has a time service? Can you elucidate on this?
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| Subject: Re: XNTP providing time source to Windex 2003 server
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On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, James Melin wrote:
> The windex folks are trying to get windows 2003 server to get the time
from
> my Linux box 'rockhopper' using the net time command from within a shell.
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> the command and results are this:
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> H:\>net time \\rockhopper
> System error 5 has occurred.
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> Access is denied.
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> They are telling me it has to be an authentication issue with Linux. I am
> telling them that this is impossible since xntpd is providing a tcp/ip
> service on a tcp/ip port. The service does not authenticate, and the
tcp/ip
> layer does not authenticate therefore it's not a Linux problem.
It's almost certainly talking to Samba's time service, not using NTP.
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John.
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