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Time server w/proxy auth. ability

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by andrew_fairaizl

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Has anyone run across a decent time server utility that will connect through a proxy server on port 80? The catch is that it must be free. I am working on scripting the whole update process for a few key servers. I just need one machine to have anaccurate time. The net admins refuse to unblock the SNTP port for us. If the utility can push the correct time to other machines, that would be a great bonus! Thanks!

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by m.r.

You didn't mention server OS. I have the same problem. We have a firewall and a proxy. The PDC or in W2K the PDC Emulator is by default the time source. I've used the net time command to assign the external ntp server and set it to the proxy server. I'm not sure what you want to make the timeserver. If it's NT4 you can use the W32Time service from MS resource kit. You can download it but be sure you get the new, there is an older version still online. For W2K you can edit the registry to make a server act like and ntp source server. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\SERVICES\W32TIME\PARAMETERS
The LocalNTP value REG_DWORD - 0 is no start, 1 is start. There is a good MS article on this called The Windows Time Service in the how to section. Let me know if you need more details.

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