[Samba] How 'accurate' is time sync on the samba server?

[Jason Williams]

Not long at all actually. Around 10 seconds to get the user logged in.

Jason

At 11:42 PM 5/5/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>On Mon, 5 May 2003, Jason Williams wrote:
>
> > Well, as it stands right now, what I noticed is that the server may be at
> > 4:05:15
> > At the same time, the test client was at 4:04:45. Even though it is roughly
> > a 30-35 second time difference, I would prefer it to be a little closer.
> > Maybe around 10-15 second time difference, if possible.
>
>How long is the logon sequence taking?
>
>- John T.
>
> >
> > I thought about installing a client NTP service, such as one from
> > http://www.analogx.com
> >
> > Probably best to install clients on each one I would imagine then?
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > At 11:27 PM 5/5/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> > >On Mon, 5 May 2003, Jason Williams wrote:
> > >
> > > > Just as the subject states, how close and accurate can time 
> synchronization
> > > > be with Samba as a PDC and Windows Clients connecting to the PDC with
> > > net time?
> > >
> > >What you are seeing is par for the course.
> > >
> > >If you want tighter time synchronization I would suggest that you install
> > >on each client an NTP service that syncs with atomic clocks.
> > >
> > >- John T.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I have setup a logon script, so when all Win2k clients connect to 
> the PDC,
> > > > they will receive the logon script and use the PDC as their time 
> server.
> > > >
> > > > What I have noticed in my testing is that it is not entirely 100% 
> accurate?
> > > > For example, I noticed about a 35 second difference  between the 
> PDC and a
> > > > test client.
> > > >
> > > > I have set time server =yes
> > > > I set the script to be:
> > > >
> > > > net time \\sambatest /set /yes
> > > >
> > > > I made sure the logon.bat file is a MS-DOS style file.
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts?
> > > >
> > > > Jason
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >John H Terpstra
> > >Email: jht at samba.org
> >
>
>--
>John H Terpstra
>Email: jht at samba.org