Olo,
didn't you see my previous reply which I sent about 6 hours before Danny
sent his reply?
The package has been built with VS2008, so you need to install the
VS2008 runtime.
See:
http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2013-August/035912.html
Take care if you have also installed some stuff from David Taylor. This
is perfectly fine but AFAIK David uses VS2010, so there may be
dependencies on the VS2010 runtime from David's binaries, and
dependencies on the VS2008 runtime from Meinberg's binaries.
Martin
Olo Burrows wrote:
On Monday, August 12, 2013 11:36:16 PM UTC-4, Danny Mayer wrote:
On 8/12/2013 6:47 AM, Olo Burrows wrote:
Has anyone experienced a failure of the Meinberg ntp binaries to run
on Windows Server 2008 R2?
I don't know what the Meinberg installer does when installing the
binaries though I did provide some advice to them at the time. What you
do need need is to have the Change System Time privilege enabled for the
user account running the service. I believe that local service has that
or you set up an account that specifically includes that privilege. You
have to do that in the Local Security Policy MSC. Either that or have
administrator group. I advise not doing either of these but to establish
a separate account with that privilege and logon as service privilege
and remove it from the Users group.
Also make sure you disable Windows Time.
...
If it was built with VC90 then you need to have the freely available
VC90 runtime installed. You need OpenSSL as the Windows binary is always
built with it.
Danny
Yes, I did disable Windows Time because it is essentially useless in these
applications.
The Meinberg installer is essentially brilliant. I checked deeper into the
'ntp' account created by it and the Local Police editor (gpedit.msc) reports
that even though ntp does not belong to any user group the installer gives it
the rights to change time and a few others that I noticed. It also disables the
Windows Time service and a number of other niceties that make it almost
dummy-proof. Perfect for most Windows users :-)
By the way, I did download and install the Visual C++ runtime for 2010 and
2012, not knowing which would apply. My tests led me to believe that neither
one helped, despite my expectations. But perhaps the reboot for the other
updates and packages that I later installed allowed it to complete its
installation even though it did not prompt me to do so at the time.
It was really gratifying to see the other network devices suddenly display the
correct server time once ntp fired up. Nothing better!
Thanks!
--
Martin Burnicki
Meinberg Funkuhren
Bad Pyrmont
Germany
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