Time Snching Linux and XP on a Network (Previously Putting Samba on Linux with RPM?)

From: W. Watson (wolf_tracks_at_invalid.inv)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:02:26 GMT

Summarizing the previous thread, I'm putting Samba aside, since my first interest was
getting a reasonable time synch over the network by using Win XP Pro to sync a Linux
machine. The XP machine is almost always on the internet. I have a 24/7 Linux
application that needs time synching a couple of times a day. It runs on a Linux RH
Enterprise WS Release 9 (Shrike) box. I have no interest in connecting it to the
internet to time synch from there. I do believe I have the two machines talking to
one another. At least, I can ping the other machine from either machine. I'll worry
further about Samba once I get the time synch solved.

Getting the time synch has run into what I hope is a temporary snag. The instructions
for using XP as a time server can be found at
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314054#EXTERNAL>. It's a nine step description that
requires manipulation of the XP registry. Before attempting it, I would like to
create a Win emergency repair disk, ERD; however, this notion no longer exists in XP.
Instead, XP Pro has some very odd way of doing this called ASR, automated system
recovery. At the moment, this is almost unfathomably weird. It is not at all clear
how one recovers using the ASR mechanism. There is hope. I think I've found a
document that pretty well describes the choices. However, instead of ASR, I may need
to use a freeware tool, ERUNT, for it.

Anyway, once I can create a recovery mechanism, I'll then determine if the Linux
machine really can field the time synch. It looks like I have my hands full with XP
recovery mechanisms.