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Use the Airport Express as a local time server
Authored by: theocrates on Aug 11, '04 12:03:30PM

How exactly does one set the base station as the time server in the Date & Time preferences? The pulldown menu doesn't automatically list the base station, and I'm not certain what path to type (e.g., time.apple.com).

Also, Rob, you say one can set the activity light, er, activity; but I don't see anything in my Airport Extreme's "Base Station Options" tab that would indicate as much, unless you mean the Base Station Logging option. (Incidentally, does anyone know what the various logging levels mean? I have mine set to 7-Debug, but I'm not sure what gets logged).



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Use the Airport Express as a local time server
Authored by: GaelicWizard on Aug 11, '04 12:35:18PM

You should type in the IP of the AirPort Express.

Also, AFAIK, if you do not have anywhere for the log to be sent to (which you likely do not) then it does not matter what level you set the log to, because its not being recorded anywhere.

JP

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Use the Airport Express as a local time server
Authored by: TvE on Aug 11, '04 01:23:40PM

Not quite true - there is a 128 K buffer in the AirPort Extreme Base Station, so changing to debug level (7) results in more stuff being logged IN the router.

But the best thing to do is to setup a syslogdaemon (Apple has a tecnote on this) if you have a Mac there is acting as a server and is allways on...

PS.: So far I have not see anything being logged "higher" than level 5



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Use the Airport Express as a local time server
Authored by: paulsrandall on Aug 21, '04 03:28:43PM

The activity setting is only available when configuring an AirPort Express Base Station not an Extreme Base Station.



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