[Samba] Time sync issue

[Peter Milesson]

samba at lists.samba.org

On 19.02.2025 19:20, James Browning via samba wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2025 08:51, Peter Milesson via samba 
> <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>> Let's hope this gets solved once and for all in the near future. After
>> recurring posts for the last 10 years about time sync problems on
>> Windows clients, I started to giving up hope.
>
> I saw a hopeful thing[1] from a "software
> engineer with Microsoft".
>
> I had not heard of the extended MS-SNTP
> authenticator when I was working on
> reconnecting ntpd/ntp_signd.c
>
> Ot: I am trying to get some unofficial NTPsec
> packages up so y'all can throw ntp.log files
> and packet captures in my face to show me
> how naff NTPsec really is. Anyone have
> requests beyond Debian stable on AMD64?
>
> (re-sent because my handbrain does not
> interact well with the list)
>
> [1] https://lists.ntpsec.org/pipermail/devel/2025-January/010559.html
>
> -30-
>
Hi James,

It's wonderful news! Seems to be a big leap forward. And kudos to the M$ 
engineer for the courage.

I'm not blaming or trying to shame anybody here, but as a sysadmin at a 
small company, it's extremely frustrating when things are working 
sometimes, and after a few updates, they are not. I sincerely appreciate 
the efforts of open source software developers, to push things forward. 
But if nobody complains, we would just being force fed all the crap that 
large corporations are stuffing down our throats. Like most sysadmins I 
can dabble in C, C++, Java, Python, bash, Powershell, etc., but not 
seriously write a piece of solid server software that's used by 
millions. Much less maintain it.

Some are seriously annoyed, but with no means to improve things, and 
some are not living day to day with all the problems broken systems 
incur, but able to do something about it. Let's take it as a community 
effort to improve the world, not a trench war.

Best regards,

Peter