[Samba] Time synchronization problem. Chrony, ntp
Rowland Penny
rpenny at samba.org
Mon Jan 20 14:55:00 UTC 2025
On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:24:00 +0100
Kees van Vloten via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> Op 20-01-2025 om 11:52 schreef Rowland Penny via samba:
> > On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:51:54 +0100
> > Peter Milesson via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 19.01.2025 17:30, Sonic via samba wrote:
> >>> When I first did a Samba upgrade to 4.19.3 on Debian Bookworm back
> >>> in December of 2023 Chrony was working just fine for a natural
> >>> domain time sync to the DC - no special config or GPO necessary.
> >>> So after seeing this thread I decided to see what was different
> >>> about my configuration that allowed it to work so seamlessly and
> >>> I was shocked that it no longer does. I don't think it's a change
> >>> in Chrony as I'm sure it's the same version that was installed
> >>> back in 2023. So it's either a change in Samba (currently at
> >>> 4.21.1 - Debian Backports) or a change in every Windows system on
> >>> two different domains. Have there been any changes in Samba's
> >>> code in this area since 4.19.3?
> >> Hi Sonic,
> >>
> >> I posted here about time sync problems in August 2023, replacing
> >> ntpd with chrony and got time sync working. Since then, there have
> >> been no chrony updates in Debian Bookworm. Thus it seems to be a
> >> Samba problem.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >>
> > I cannot get Chrony to work with MS-SNTP from a Windows client, now
> > this could be a Samba problem, but I cannot test the probably fixed
> > ntpsec, because the 'fix' is only available for the version of
> > ntpsec in Trixie and I do not have a 'Trixie' DC and I am not
> > willing to add one running a testing version of an OS. Anyone know
> > the procedure to ask for a package to be backported ?
> >
> > Rowland
>
> If you don't want to be dependent on the maintainer and get it
> quickly, you can checkout the debian source of ntpsec, take the
> version from Trixie. replace (some of) the dependencies with those of
> Bookworm and build the package.
>
> Debian's ntpsec versions:
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ntpsec/-/tags
>
> Check the dependency differences between release 1.2.3+dfsg1-3
> (Trixie) and 1.2.2+dfsg1-1+deb12u1 (Bookworm).
>
I thought about that and if required, I will do so, but it would be
better if Debian just backported the fix.
Rowland
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