Syncronizing windows with linux?

[David Rosenstrauch]

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