[Samba] Time synchronization issue

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, William LIM!

>> > 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.

> Thanks for the trick. I'll try it.

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

I'm not judging. I didn't have the time to research.
I knew a short way and I did it in 5 minutes.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 17:02:07

Sorry for my terrible english...