Win32 Time service for win98 LAN 1

[ray436]

Hello,

Is it possible to use the win32 time service from a Win2000 machine on a LAN of mostly win98 boxes to set the time on all machines. I figure other win2K boxes will respond, but what about the Win98 ones? How hard is this to implement?

TIA

 

[paulwood]

If they logon to the Win2k box, then you can set the clock to match using the logon script. Put

NET TIME \\[servername] /SET /YES

into the script. I'm not certain, but maybe if you ran a batch file which is not a logon script, it may also work, but that is entirely guesswork!

 

[ray436]

hmm... looks familiar. I guess it is just a call for the SNTP afterall. Kool. will try it out. They are logging onto the one Win2K box for a database backend. I could maybe add it to the database frontend on each workstation also. The database is really the only reason I would like the clocks to match, since it will help prevent file update catch-22's where the user's are unaware of who was on a record last.

thanks