How to Configure Mac OS X to access your NTP Server

December 16, 2009 · Posted in Fedora, Open Source, centos 

Once you finished setup your NTP server, you need to allow your NTP client to access the NTP Server. Here i going to show your how to configure your NTP Client (Mac OS X) to sync the time from your NTP Server. Below are the steps:

1st – Launch your terminal

2nd – From the terminal, type the following command

techkaki-MacBook:~ techkaki $ sudo vi /etc/ntp.conf

3rd – change the default timezone address to your server domain name or ip address

By default, it will point to apple timezone. Eg: server time.asia.apple.com

To change it, just change the URL to your server ip or server domain name

eg: server 192.168.1.2 or server ntp.techkaki.com

4th – Save the ntp.conf

Now you will realize that your Mac timezone already point to your ntp server.

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