Hi Adam, According to http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2005/02/11/371474.aspx , the INTERACTIVE group can be given permissions to change system time (through secpol.msc). Of course, logged users are included and can do it too (at their own peril ;)).
Cheers, Ari Constancio On Dec 6, 2007 4:38 PM, simo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 10:34 -0600, Adam Williams wrote: > > I want my XP clients to update their clocks from my samba server. I > > have time server = yes in smb.conf, and running ntpd on the server, but > > my clients aren't updating their clocks. I tried running the command > > manually logged in as a domain user: > > > > net time /setsntp:10.8.2.3 > > > > but it just says "System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied". > > > > Any ideas? > > Setting the clock is generally a privileged operation. You can manually > set it only if you have the right privileges locally on the machine > (admin has them but there are registry settings somewhere to relax the > constraint for normal users iirc). > > Simo. > > -- > Simo Sorce > Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba