Back in mid I asked this group about using my Garmin 12XL as a time source
on XP Pro. Some urged me to use NTP instead. I finally began trying this
approach and late Dec. and have not had a lot of luck. Here's what I would
like to do. I have two computers, a Linux box and XP box, on a local
network. I'd like to set the clock on the XP box daily from an NTP source
on the internet. That's been easy to do. At some point during the day, I'd
like the linux box to request from XP the correct time. That has not been
easy at all. I've been told that XP does not really have NTP, but does have
sntp. Any request to XP (on 192.168.0.3) goes unheeded.

People in another group (a linux networking NG) have suggested that I need
to replace sntp with ntp. This most likely requires a download. I haven't
googled around for it yet. There's a easily found document on the web
titled something like an autoritative time source for XP that *seems* to
suggest a registry change will create an NTP server on XP. So far following
the instructions there has led to an impass. This morning I received a
message from a fellow on the linux network NG saying he had found yet
another registry change doc, a simpler one, on the net that created an NTP
server in XP for him, and he was able to make a request from a linux box to
it for time.

So what in the last paragraph is true? 1. That is, is the only way to get a
good ntp server on xp to download some code? 2. Does the authoritative doc
really work? 3. Is a simple registration change an easy way to get an ntp
server on XP? Any experience with any of these three items would be
appreciated.

BTW, I'm looking for 8ms of accuracy to the linux box. Yes, I know using a
linux server instead of the current config of ntp for XP is a better way to
do this.

Here are the two sources for the registry change approach:

<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314054>

<http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Configuring-Windo...>
Two other related articles:
<http://dtdocs.ntp-systems.com/kb/kb2001.002.asp>
<http://www.greyware.com/software/domaintime/technical/network/protoco...>

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