[Samba] Time synchronization issue

[William LIM]

Hello Andrey

Thanks for the trick. I'll try it.

But it's a pity it doesn't work natively, right ?

2015-04-22 14:08 GMT+02:00 Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex.ru>:

> Greetings, William LIM!
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I have set a Samba AD DC on my network. Version is 4.1.17 on a Debian
> > Wheezy.
>
> > I have an issue on my Windows XP SP3 clients : the time on these
> computers
> > is not synchronized with my Domain Controler.
>
> > Big problem is, if time difference is considerable (more or less 5
> > minutes), users can not log in.
>
> > On the other hand, my server is correctly synchronized with NTP server.
>
> > I don't understand the reason of my problem, and don't know were to start
> > investigating.
>
> > Has anybody got this issue ?
>
> Got exactly your problem two days ago.
> From elevated shell:
>
> w32tm /unregister
> reboot
> w32tm /register
> w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:time.example.com /syncfromflags:MANUAL
> /update
> time /T (To test if synchronization done correctly)
>
> time.example.com is your domain time server - either AD DC or an NTP
> server it
> is synchronized with. I prefer NTP, though. Domain time service seems to be
> unreliable in my setup, or needs to be enabled manually.
>
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Andrey Repin
> Wednesday, April 22, 2015 15:01:06
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...