[Samba] time sync issue

[Helmut Hullen]

Hallo, wes,

Du (samba) meintest am 14.01.09:

> I am running a Samba domain controller with LDAP integration. I have
> at least some workstations which do not seem to be syncing the time
> with the DC at all.

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One way: group policies. On each Client.

Another way:
Batch "settime.bat" on each client:

@echo off
set Server=<IP-address>
ping -n 1 -w 1 %Server% | find "(0%"
if errorlevel 0 net time %Server% /set /yes

And this batch is run  as an administrator task with the option "run  
when the computer starts".
You have to define this task on each client, too.

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Calling an NTP server also needs changes on every client.
And it's not related to Samba.

It has to be run as a service, and I couldn't manage it correctly - my  
W2000 clients called the predefined NTP servers (NIST and MS) sometimes  
instead of my Samba server's NTP server, and that doesn't work in a LAN  
where a router doesn't allow NTP calls into the WAN.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut