Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] xntp
From: Conner (janus@cyberverse.com)
Date: Tue Dec 09 1997 - 20:35:02 EST
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> How does this compare to NTP? I currently have xntpd running on my linux
> box and the Network Time Control Panel on my Mac. Are there any major
> differences between ntimelord and ntp? Thanks.
>
> -------------------------------
> Andrew McNabb
> Argus Systems Group
> amcnabb@argus-systems.com
> -------------------------------
>
> On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Mark Donnelly wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 9 Dec 1997 12:05:47 -0600 tim@stlouis.datapage.com (Tim Rand)
> > wrote:
> >
> > >How does one use ntimelord?
> > >
> > >I have not found information about how to use it and what it does.
> >
> > ntimelord is a server time daemon for setting the clock on the Macintosh
> > to the time on your netatalk file server. To use it, you have to
> > download a chooser extension called (surprisingly) tardis.
> >
> > (Long live the Doctor!)
> >
> > --Mark
> > "I think so Brain, but if they called them sad meals, then
> > no one would buy them."
> >
> >
>
I've made a habit of using the Network Time control panel myself, and have
been quite happy with it. Handy as Macs are, appletalk is an ugly protocol,
and anything I can do to switch any particular services over to tcp makes my
network happier.
-Conner
Customer: I'm using Windows.
Tech: Okay.
Customer: Well, my computer isn't working.
Tech: Yes, you said that.
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