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

[Michael Wood]

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 XP
> 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>