Running ntp on LAN

[Timothy Murphy]

I have ntpd running perfectly on my desktop,
and now I'd like to set the time on my laptop
and other machines on my little LAN
from the desktop.

However, I haven't succeeded in this,
and while I have read a number of interesting NTP tutorials,
I haven't seen any which discuss what must be
quite a common request, particularly now
with everyone constructing a home LAN.

I've added 
       restrict 192.168.3.0 mask 255.255.255.0 notrust nomodify notrap
and
        broadcast 192.168.3.255
to /etc/ntp.conf on my desktop,
and re-started ntpd on desktop and laptop,
but my laptop reports 
i       ntpd: Synchronising with time server: [FAILED]

[My WiFi network is 192.168.3.*]

What am I missing?


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