[Samba] Time Sync

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 09:26 -0500, Sonic via samba wrote:
> I'm not sure this particular AD is acting properly as a time service.
> 
> The socket "/usr/local/samba/var/lib/ntp_signd/socket" exists with
> proper permissions but I see a lot of time sync errors in my clients.
> 
> This case being that the Samba AD is running in a LXC and the
> container itself doesn't need ntpd running as its time is always the
> same as the host's time (which is running ntpd).
> 
> Does the Samba4 AD actually need ntpd running in the same container as
> itself in order to be a time service?

Yes, or else you need to somehow connect ntpd to Samba, as otherwise
you can't configure the Samba authentication mode. 

Andrew Bartlett

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