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From: Gavin_Eadie@um.cc.umich.edu (Gavin Eadie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Setting Macintosh clocks over AppleTalk
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.203016.20796@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 20:30:16 GMT
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Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center
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I'm finishing up an implementation of Kerberos for AppleShare/aufs and 
need a way to keep the Mac clients in time synch with the aufs file server
and the ticket granting server on the network. The standard way for a
client to do this is to use the network time protocol (ntp - RFC 1119)
and interrogate time servers on the net.

In the AppleTalk environment, no such thing exists at present so this 
posting asks some questions, in case I'm about to start duplicating some 
other effort by implementing something myself:

*** Has anyone written anything to set Mac clocks over AppleTalk?

*** Has anyone plans to do such a thing (added functionality for 
    Responder, for example)?

*** Has anyone ported the existing unix ntp code to a Macintosh? The two
    implementations I've looked at are large and quite system dependent.

Post thoughts to me or the net (I *do* read this newgroup).
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Gavin_Eadie@um.cc.umich.edu

Gavin Eadie, Associate Director
The University of Michigan Computing Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103-4943