NTP with Windows Clients

[Mike Kallies]

Kareem Shehata wrote:
> I've configured my Debian/GNU box to use NTP with the configuration
> below.  It works well from other Linux boxen, but I can't seem to get
> any Windows machines to sync to it, whether by the built-in client or
> third-party tools.  Is there any trick to making it SNTP compatible?

Built-in NTP client?

As far as I know there is no built-in NTP client in any version of 
Windows.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.

If you've set up Samba, you should be able to do the following from the 
Windows boxes:

c:\>net time \\servername /set /yes

If you're not already using Samba, or if you're worried about utter 
precision, then you should probably stick with NTP... the above will 
either not be precise enough or it will require a service you shouldn't 
need.

-Mike

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