ntp server not working on DC to sync time with XP clients

Charles Tryon charles.tryon at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 12:39:13 MST 2010


The post you linked to says that the versions of ntpd on Ubuntu have this
enabled.  Do you know if this is also true for current Fedora (13? 14?)
versions of ntpd?


On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On 23 November 2010 20:01, Robert Clauff <rclauff at cas-online.com> wrote:
> > I have been running samba4 as my DC for a few months now but I am still
> > getting the error in event viewer as the XP clients are not receiving
> > time from the DC.  I have tried several configurations with ubuntu
> > packages and without packages, thinking that they might interfere with
> > the built in ntp server.  What could be the issue and/or how to I
> > configure the internal samba4 ntp server so that it works with my X
> > clients?
>
> There is no internal samba4 NTP server.  You need to install ntpd, but
> it should be compiled with --enable-ntp-signd as per this message:
>
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2010-November/074476.html
>
> See also source4/ntp_signd/README which points to
> http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1028
>
> --
> Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>
>



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    Charles Tryon
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