1.4 Compatibility with Other Versions of NetWare

NTPv3 components cannot be loaded on a server where timesync.nlm is running.

All versions of NetWare 4 can use only NCP. NetWare 5.x and 6.x can use NCP and NTP.

The NTPv3 component, XNTPD, replies to NCP time requests to support backward compatibility for Timesync.

Table 1-1 Compatibility Between NTP And Timesync

Time Provider

Time Consumer

Is Configuration Allowed?

Timesync SINGLE time server

NTP client time consumer

Allowed - NTP

Timesync PRIMARY time server

NTP client time consumer

Allowed - NTP

Timesync SECONDARY time server

NTP client time consumer

Allowed - NTP

NTP server time provider

SINGLE time server

Allowed - NCP/NTP

REFERENCE time server

Allowed - NCP/NTP

PRIMARY time server

Allowed - NCP/NTP

SECONDARY time server

Allowed - NCP/NTP

NTP client Time Consumer

NTP