[Samba] chrony configuration for secondary samba DC

Alexei Rozenvaser alexei.roz at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 12:33:04 UTC 2018


Correct. But it doesn't answer my original question. How should one to
setup NTP server at his Samba DC that doesn't hold PDC emulator FSMO
role...
Moreover, what package is responsible, in this case, of machine time
sync: NTP server / client or SAMBA as AD client?
Dose samba menage time synchronization by itself or it delegates this
task to the local NTP server?

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 1:16 PM Rowland Penny via samba
<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 10:12:23 +0100
> Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 11:56:16 +0300
> > Alexei Rozenvaser <alexei.roz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > DC that doesn't holding PDC emulator FSMO role should sync it's time
> > > with DC that holdings such role. Right?
> > > But I can understand how it works in case of samba DC without PDC
> > > emulator FSMO role and with NTP server configured according to
> > > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Time_Synchronisation#Set_up_the_ntpd.conf_File_on_a_DC
> > > . Doesn't it create conflict between samba potential to sync time
> > > with other PDC emulator DC and NTP sever that syncs with some
> > > external NTP pool?
> >
> > To be honest, I have never given this much thought, I normally just
> > set the DCs up identically and then get DHCP to send both DCs as time
> > servers to Unix machines.
> >
> > I have a draft chrony wikipage, but I need to understand more about
> > windows and time servers (I use Unix more than I use windows) before
> > adding it.
> >
> > Rowland
> >
>
> OK, after a bit of research, it seems it is quite simple, I like
> simple ;-)
>
>      internet time server
>                ^
>                |
>                |
>        PDC Emulator DC
>         ^         ^
>         |         |
>         |         |
>    Other DC <----Workstation
>
> To put the above into words, the DC with the PDC Emulator role uses an
> external NTP server as its source. All other DCs use the PDC Emulator
> DC as their time server. All other workstations, servers etc, can use
> any DC as their time server.
>
> Rowland
>
>
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