Friday, 23 March 2007

samba for time synchronization

A somewhat hidden feature of Samba is that you can use Samba as a local timeserver for your Windows clients. The following line is added to enable this feature. By default, a windows client will talk to a micro$oft time server if time synchronization is enabled. So now you can let those clients in LAN talk to the samba server with the following setting in the samba configuration file:

timeserver = yes



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