Server Admin 10.4 Help

NTP Service Overview

What is NTP Service?

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a network protocol used to synchronize the clocks of computers on your network to a time reference clock. NTP is used to ensure that all the computers on a network are reporting the same time.

Mac OS X Server can act not only as an NTP client, receiving authoritative time from
an Internet time server, but also as an authoritative time server for a network. Your local clients can query your server to set their clocks. It's advised that if you set your server to answer time queries, you should also set it to query an authoritative server on the Internet.

Managing NTP Service

The following help topics help you configure and enable NTP service.

• Setting Up NTP Service
• Configuring NTP on Clients