NTP Netware/NT Mixed

[SSWNET]

We have a mixed environment with about 40 NT servers and 2 Netware servers. We would like to start using Network Time Protocol, using a government site for pulling in the time onto a Netware server, and then have our NT (W2K)servers pull from the Novell server.

I have been looking through Novell documentation, and it pretty much all points to having Novell servers pulling time from a single Novell server on the Network.

Anyone else in a mixed environment like this?

FYI - Netware 6, SP3
NT 4.0, sp6 and Windows 2000 mixed environment.

 

[Psychoid]

Hi.
Here is a TID on how to sync time among multiple platforms

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10018288.htm

NetWare can pull from a public NTP server.
The way I typically set this up is to point my SINGLE time server to the NTP server & all others to it.

To set up your NW server to pull from a NTP source, do the following:
load monitor-->Server Parameters-->Time
Make sure Timesync Configured Sources is on
Timesync Polling Interval -- set this to what you desire
Timesync Time Sources -- IPAddress/DNS Name & Port of NTP source. If more than one is used, seperate them with semi-colons

At the server console, unload timesync & then load timesync. The Timesync debug screen should come up & you should see confirmation that everything is working.





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Bill
Consultant / Network Engineer
CNE, CCNA