This guide describes the time synchronization service based on RFC 1305. Time synchronization uses the Network Time Protocol version 3 (NTPv3). This guide is intended to help network administrators configure and use NTPv3, and it contains the following sections:
This Guide is intended for NetWare administrators who use NTPv3 for Time synchronization services on NetWare 6.5.
We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this manual and the other documentation included with this product. Please use the User Comments feature at the bottom of each page of the online documentation, or go to Novell documentation feedback and enter your comments there.
For the most recent version of this Network Time Protocol Administration Guide, see the Novell Documentation Web site.
For documentation on Time synchronization on NetWare®, see .
All occurrences of NTP in this documentation refer to NTP version 3 (NTPv3).
In this documentation, a greater-than symbol (>) is used to separate actions within a step and items in a cross-reference path.
Also, a trademark symbol (®, ™, etc.) denotes a Novell® trademark. An asterisk (*) denotes a third-party trademark.
When a single pathname can be written with a backslash for some platforms or a forward slash for other platforms, the pathname is presented with a backslash. Users of platforms that require a forward slash, such as UNIX*, should use forward slashes as required by your software.