[Samba] Samba4 Windows Client Time Sync Issue

[Luis Peromarta]

I had a similar issue some time ago. Some clients would sync with DCs some other didn’t.

I recently had issues also with bookworm and NTP (bookwork installing ntpsec). I decided to move all DCs to chrony, worked perfectly, and all member servers to systemd-timesyncd with a minimal config from samba wiki that just *works*

Re. Windows clients, I have not seen may Local CMOS clocks lately after these changes.

This question may have been asked before, but how many DCs do you run, and do all have the same config for time (ntp, chrony) ?

What’s the output of  w32tm /monitor in the clients ? What’s the output of w32tm /query /status ?

On a good client (syncing with a DC) what is the logon server ? ( Run set l )
On a bad client (not syncing with a DC) what is the logon server ? Is there a pattern ?

Regards, LP
On 26 Jun 2023 at 20:35 +0200, Marco Shmerykowsky PE <marco at sce-engineers.com>, wrote:
>
> That's exactly what I thought I had done. The DC's point to
> the netgate server. I was under the impression that the clients
> would automatically time sync by logging into the domain.
>
> Some PC's/Clients are syncing. Others are connecting to "Local
> CMOS Clock".