[ale] possibility of running an NTP server

[jdp at algoloma.com (JD)]

On 01/12/2012 01:23 AM, Ron Frazier wrote:
> 
> Hi JD,
> 
> I only have 3 computers that are generally on my home network at a time. 
> My Son's is on intermittently, and has Windows Vista set to sync time on 
> the internet. I don't know when and where it does that, but it works for 
> him. My computers are almost always all running Linux at the same time 
> or are all dual booted into Windows at the same time. On the Linux side, 
> I have NTP running as a client on each one. They all access external NTP 
> servers to sync the time. I've been studying the NTPD configuration file 
> extensively today. I found some interesting things I'm going to post in 
> a different message. At the moment, I'm not running any NTP server 
> within my own network. On the Windows side of the fence, I run a little 
> executable from NIST that querys their server at fixed intervals. I 
> think I'm going to try to find an actual NTP client for Windows, so I 
> can use the same external servers I've selected for Linux.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ron
> 

Windows has a pseudo-NTP client built-in. I force it to sync every 15 minutes
here to my Linux-based NTPd.  Doing it hourly let it drift 5 minutes.  "Internet
Time" is the Windows name for "NTP."
http://lifehacker.com/5819797/synchronize-your-windows-clock-with-an-alternative-time-server-to-increase-accuracy
 If you are on AD, I think AD controls time (security reasons), so you can't
redirect elsewhere.

In the old days before Windows supported NTP, I used a program called "D4" every
few months. I always thought of it as equiv to "ntpdate".

Could it be that you are making this much harder than it needs to be?

Isn't ntpd is both client and server?