Making sure that every computer in your office displays the correct time and date is essential to keeping your employees in sync and preventing miscommunication in the workplace. Synchronizing the ...

In order for a server in your business to sync its time with that of a client computer, it needs to use what is known as Network Time Protocol (NTP). When your NTP server is working correctly, all ...

Setting up a Unix system to be an NTP client is generally straightforward. On those Unix platforms that include NTP in the default configuration, you may only need to make a few adjustments to NTP’s ...

Hi All, any NTP experts? I have a piece of hardware that is syncing to a PC(1) which has an NTP server which in turn is syncing off another PC(2) with a local NTP server. - The PC(2) with local NTP ...

I'm running two Win2k3 DCs, one Exchange 2k7 box, a Blackberry box, a file/print server, Sharepoint, WSUS and ~40 XP and Win7 workstations. I've discovered that our network is ~3 minutes ahead of ...

Last week’s column introduced NTP, the Network Time Protocol and the concept of highly accurate timekeeping. While numerous commands exist to help system administrators maintain fairly accurate time ...

NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all too forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate clock synchronization is required for everything ranging from cryptography to ...