Syncronizing windows with linux?

[Stephen Adler]

Thanks for the quick replies...

Cheers. Steve.

David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> On 10/09/2009 02:56 PM, Stephen Adler wrote:
>   
>> Do you guys know if one can use the native windows time synchronization 
>> system to sync the time of a windows xp system to a linux system running 
>> ntpd? Or does one need to install ntp on the windows system?
>>
>> Thanks. Steve.
>>     
>
> XP has an ntp client built-in (I think).  Double-click on the clock in 
> your system tray, and then click on the tab that (I think) says 
> "Internet time" (or some such - I don't have an XP box in front of me 
> right now).  On that tab you can enter an NTP server to sync with.
>
> One thing to note:  the NTP sync frequency on windows is set very long 
> (1 hour, IIRC) and there's no GUI to change it.  It can be changed 
> through a registry entry, though.  (I switched mine to sync every 5 
> minutes.)  You can google on it for details.
>
> HTH,
>
> DR
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