On 3 Mar 2005 16:16:42 -0800, elnegro said something similar to:
:
: do you have any idea of how to syncronize the time between an AIX
: server and Active Directory?
: I need to get the time from Active Directory and set this time to the
: unix server. I mean the unix server acting as a client to the Active
: Directory.
AD supports the NTP protocol, however its own timekeeping is not accurate
enough for ntpd to sync with. It's only sufficient for use by SNTP clients.
The best you can do with the AIX box as a client of the AD domain controllers
is run to ntpdate against the DCs at boot time, and then periodically from a
cron job.
A better solution would be to setup a proper NTP server, either on the AIX
system or another machine, and have both the AD domain controllers and any
other non-Windows systems on your network sync with the NTP server.
