Martin, Maybe so, but when I tried both XP and Vista before the change I mentioned, both timed out and did not work.
Dave Martin Burnicki wrote: > Ryan, > > Ryan Malayter wrote: > >>Okay, I just did some packet captures. It appears that Vista, when >>configured *only* with a time server host name or IP address, will >>first issue an NTP client mode request, and then an NTP symmetric >>active requirest a few miliseconds later. >> >>I imagine this default behavior is there to make w32time work in the >>same "broken" fashion that was used in Windows 2000. Backwards >>compatability is a bitch. > > > Yep. > > >>Do Windows 2000 domain controllers ignore >>client-mode packets or someting? I don't have one to test with. > > > I don't have, either, and I've never tried to find out to which type of NTP > packets w32time responds. > > >>When a Vista machine is explicitly configured to use a client mode >>association, like so: >> w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:pool.ntp.org,0x8 >>it issues only client-mode queries, as you would expect. > > > That's what we suggest in our FAQ article mentioned in my earlier post. > > Martin _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
