[Samba] Re: w32time and Samba PDC Domains

[Michael Lueck]

So close to working that this is annoying. Upon looking into the Windows DHCP client, one can request specific DHCP options be mapped to specific places in the registry, so I cooked up the following:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dhcp\Parameters\Options\4]
"RegLocation"="SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\W32Time\\Parameters\\NtpServer"
"KeyType"=dword:00000001

Reboot and NADDA. Made the NtpServer string and left it empty, still nadda.

Looks like this is getting to be more of a dhcp Q than Samba... but while here anyone actually successfully fetch the ntp server name out of a DHCP server with a Windows client successfully? Everyone, 
including the Samba docs suggest setting the option on the server, but I am yet to see an example of using that field on a Windows client.

Enough for a night... I don't love MS this much to stay up more! Besides, just logon with too much permission and happen to leave

NET TIME %LOGONSERVER% /SET /Y

in your logon script, right?! ;-)

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Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
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