[Samba] chrony configuration for secondary samba DC

[Rowland Penny]

On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 18:35:40 +0200
Reindl Harald via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 03.06.2018 um 17:54 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:
> > On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 18:45:37 +0300
> > Alexei Rozenvaser <alexei.roz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> How you so sure about it?
> >> Even at https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/samba chrony mentioned
> >> as suggested related package
> >> .
> > 
> > Ubuntu can recommend what they like, but Samba only recommends and
> > supports ntpd.
> 
> no, you think so, you even maybe right but all you do in this thread
> is stating personal opinions

I am not stating my personal opinion.

> 
> NTP is defined in IETF RFC's and a decadesa old protocol and unless
> you can point out a technical reason or even a protocol violation of
> whatever implementation or that samba relies on a protocol violation
> other implementations don't support samba supports NTP as a prococol
> and not a specific implementation
> 
> just because you didn't try something don't say anything about
> technical supported - NTP is not a C library with a API samba is
> linked against and franly given that most distributions switching
> away from ntp.org it's time to even *officailyl support* chrony which
> is the default implementation in the Redhat world too, not only Ubuntu

It may be the default option in the redhat world, but at the moment, it
isn't in the Samba world, though this may change sometime in the future.

> 
> > You can use whatever you like, but you cannot get support here for
> > chrony.
> 
> this is still a *users* list

No, it is the Samba users mailing list.

Goodbye Reindl.

Rowland