[Samba] clock skew again

[Brett Stevens]

If you are using samba 3 why not use "net time" to set your time correctly.
The problem here is that the ntp protocol has many flavors. We used a
product called nettime xntp was able to "see" this version ok.
Brett Stevens


On 27/5/04 07:27, "Sahibzada Junaid Noor" <sjunaidn at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>    ok this time i have really done every thing i can
> do.
> 
> i went to
> http://www.bytefusion.com/download/win2000/middle.htm
> 
> and downloaded the presentTense time server for
> windows 2000. i installed it on my backup domain
> controller.
> 
> my sys admin wont allow it on the primary domain
> controller. 
> 
> ok so after installing it on niit91 (10.10.11.91)
> 
> i came back to my linux box started the ntpd and tried
> to sync the machine with niit91 using the command
> 
> ntpdate -b 10.10.11.91
> 26 May 20:50:38 ntpdate[3066]: no server suitable for
> synchronization found
> 
> 
> i used every other method including the GUI one where
> u go to the system tools and date time and check the
> time sync box in red hat ,but it wont work.
> 
> here is my ntp.conf file
> 
> server 10.10.11.91
> driftfile /etc/ntp/ntp.drift
> logfile /var/log/ntp.log
> 
> from a website
> http://freeunix.dyndns.org:8088/site2/howto/NTP3.shtml
> 
> i came to know that if there is a output like this
> then  some thing is wrong.
> 
> ntpq -p
> remote       refid   st t when poll reach delay  offset  jitter
> ==============================================================================
> 10.10.11.91  0.0.0.0 16 u 13   64   0.000  0.000 4000.00
> 
> f all remote servers have jitters of 4000.0 with delay
> and reach values of 0, then something is wrong. It
> means your server is not able to get proper
> synchronization. Output of ntpq -p would look like
> this :
> 
> can u plz tell me what to do
> 
> 
> 
> 
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