Setting up a NTP server

[Blinky Bill]

We would like to setup one of our Win 2000 servers as NTP sources for
our internal network.

How is the best way to go about doing this, and is the Windows 2000 NTP
server a standard NTP server (i.e. can other clients connect e.g
solaris, NetWare etc.)

Can the other Windows 2000 Servers be configured to do a DNS lookup for
the NTP server, or does an IP address have to be specified?

 

[Enkidu]

We would like to setup one of our Win 2000 servers as NTP sources for
our internal network.

How is the best way to go about doing this, and is the Windows 2000 NTP
server a standard NTP server (i.e. can other clients connect e.g
solaris, NetWare etc.)

Can the other Windows 2000 Servers be configured to do a DNS lookup for
the NTP server, or does an IP address have to be specified?

I'm not quite sure of some of your question (eg solaris and netware),
but the Windows 2000 PDC Emulator acts as a time source for a Windows
2000 Domain, even in Native mode. There's no special setup for the
Windows 2000 servers and clients on the Domain. It "just works".
Presumably because they locate the PDC Emulator during startup.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

[Blinky Bill]

the Windows 2000 PDC Emulator acts as a time source for a Windows

We would like to have the Win2000 computer acting as the time source
for ALL computers on the network.

Each workstation gets it's time from the Novell server when they login,
therefore we would need an NTP client for the NetWare server (which we
have), but it requires an NTP server. We would also like our Solaris
box to sync time from the Win2000 server.

 

[Enkidu]

We would like to have the Win2000 computer acting as the time source
for ALL computers on the network.

Each workstation gets it's time from the Novell server when they login,
therefore we would need an NTP client for the NetWare server (which we
have), but it requires an NTP server. We would also like our Solaris
box to sync time from the Win2000 server.

Windows uses SNTP. Therefore *in principle* any SNTP client would
work. However, I'm not sure how the authentication would affect
things.

Sorry, we use seperate time systems for our Unix boxes and our Windows
boxes.

Cheers,

Cliff