[geeks] NTP on Windows

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 08:46:12 CDT 2011


gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
>> Well, the main thing I need the GUI for is configuration. This is
>> going to be deployed on 300+ machines by facilities maintenance
>> people. (Read grease-monkeys.) Editing text files, or even copying
>> text files into specific directories isn't really an option. Click
>> here, type this, on a sheet of paper, is what I'm looking for.
>
> That it has. I thought you wanted one to check and see how far off the
> clock was from the server.

Excellent.  I'll give this one a try.

> The fact that I no longer get complaints from my wife that she missed
> her bus because the built in NTP client on Windows only checks once a
> week is good enough for me, but ntpq -p in a command prompt tells me
> it's a few ms.

:)  Like I said, as long as it does the usual ntpd thing of looking at 
multiple servers to figure out its own slew rate, that's fine.

Peace...  Sridhar


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