[Samba] NTP configuration

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Thu Feb 6 19:49:03 UTC 2020


On 06/02/2020 19:27, Alexey A Nikitin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 13:11:27 PST Rowland penny via samba wrote:
>> No, sorry, but your client needs to have the same time as the DC (+/- 5
>> mins), so if you haven't installed an NTP client, I suggest you do.
> Speaking of which, any suggestions on what's the best way to found out which NTP servers the client should be tuned to in AD DS? From what I understand, they are not necessarily the same hosts as the actual DCs, but I can't seem to find any specific info on how I can discover the NTP servers to use.

Have you read this:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Time_Synchronisation

Where there is this:

*Recommended best practise*

internet time server
           ^
           |
           |
   PDC Emulator DC
    ^         ^
    |         |
    |         |
Other DC <----Workstation

Rowland






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