| Year 2000 technical summary |
| 7 | Solutions | << >> |
| 7.0 | Contents |
| 7.0 Contents | ||
| 7.1 Detecting | ||
| 7.2 Solving | ||
| 7.3 Time sources | ||
| 7.3.1 NetWare Clients | ||
| 7.3.2 NTP, Network Time Protocol | ||
| 7.3.2.1 NTP Clients |
| 7.1 | Detecting |
| See Appendix G (References | General Reources). |
| 7.2 | Solving |
| If BIOS or RTC of a personal computer has a Y2K problem, it's highly likely there will be some type of software (either a BIOS upgrade or OS patch) available to solve the problem. Many vendors have upgrades available, and there are also many 3rd party solutions. |
| 7.3 | Time sources |
| 7.3.1 | NetWare Clients |
| A properly configured NetWare client will set the workstation date and time to that of the server when the machine connects to the server and/or when a user logs into a server. See Chapter 5 ( NetWare Client Issues ) for additional details. |
| 7.3.2 | NTP, Network Time Protocol |
| NTP is a generic solution to the problem of synchronising the clocks of multiple machines connected to a network. See Appendix G (References | NTP) for internet NTP resources, information and software. |
| 7.3.2.1 | NTP Clients |
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There are many implementations of time clients for a variety of OSes and
platforms. See Appendix G (References | NTP) for availability of free, and
non-free NTP clients.
Clients are available for NetWare, Windows (32-bit) and UNIX. |
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