On Aug 8, 11:41 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I use the ntp installer for Windows and have installed to a number of > machines here. Just wondering if there is a better way of doing the ntpd > server config than manual entries in ntp.conf. For example on our > Unix-based systems, we use a dhcp server and use the ntp-servers dhcp > option. The dhclient-script on the Unix clients rewrites ntp.conf with the > servers obtained from dhcp making configuration changes much easier. Is > there any way to do this under the Windows client?
If you have a Windows domain (meaning a Windows Server with Active Directory), your client workstations and non-domain controller servers will by default use the Windows time service to automatically get time from the domain controllers. So only the domain controllers need to have any configuration done. If you want to use the "real" ntpd on windows, I know of no way to modify the Windows DHCP client service to execute a script. I think the Windows DHCP client itself simply ignores any DHCP options it is not interested in. Our DHCP server returns type 042 records for time servers, but those are not stored in the Windows system registry as far as I can tell. However, it appears you can get at the data somehow with the windows DHCP client API: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312468 You could do this with any scripting language that can make win32 API calls. VBscript cannot do so without a C++ COM wrapper, nor can JavaScript. A small C program might be your easiest route if you really want to do this. If you don't want to mess with Win32 API stuff, I think the simplest solution would be to have a startup script on all machines that updates the ntpd configuration file from a network share. You can then have that shared config file manually updated, or update the network share from one of your UNIX machines. Your DHCP time server configuration should be fairly static. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
