Hi, I am paralysed with new ubuntu server 25.04 with samba ad dc and how to setup and configure chrony. The steps in the guide don't work because I can't find ntp_signd dir as instructed by the time synchronisation guide: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Time_Synchronisation#With_chrony My current setup is I have my original ubuntu 24.04 samba ad dc computer which was first time I setup samba ad dc and was going to just trial it but it's worked well so kept it and have a few computers/systems joined and using it. I intend to add the new 25.04 server as another dc and move fsmo over to it then demote the 24.04 server and decomission it. This is just home lab, and I could also just start again fresh easily but like the experience of migrating to new dc and demoting old one. please help advise what I need to do to get time sync setup and working so I can progress. Another side thing is I've noticed that the original dc is still in 2008 r2 levels, what is correct process to get to 2012r2? Thanks
Try this and let me know how it goes. http://samba.bigbird.es/doku.php?id=samba:install-chrony Works fine with Bookworm. On 2 Jun 2025 at 07:36 +0100, Daniel Christie via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>, wrote:> Hi, > I am paralysed with new ubuntu server 25.04 with samba ad dc and how to > setup and configure chrony. The steps in the guide don't work because I > can't find ntp_signd dir as instructed by the time synchronisation guide: > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Time_Synchronisation#With_chrony > > My current setup is I have my original ubuntu 24.04 samba ad dc computer > which was first time I setup samba ad dc and was going to just trial it but > it's worked well so kept it and have a few computers/systems joined and > using it. > > I intend to add the new 25.04 server as another dc and move fsmo over to it > then demote the 24.04 server and decomission it. > This is just home lab, and I could also just start again fresh easily but > like the experience of migrating to new dc and demoting old one. > > please help advise what I need to do to get time sync setup and working so > I can progress. > > Another side thing is I've noticed that the original dc is still in 2008 r2 > levels, what is correct process to get to 2012r2? > > Thanks > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 18:35:33 +1200 Daniel Christie via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> Hi, > I am paralysed with new ubuntu server 25.04 with samba ad dc and how > to setup and configure chrony. The steps in the guide don't work > because I can't find ntp_signd dir as instructed by the time > synchronisation guide: > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Time_Synchronisation#With_chronyHave you started Samba ? The ntp_signd isn't created until you do.> > My current setup is I have my original ubuntu 24.04 samba ad dc > computer which was first time I setup samba ad dc and was going to > just trial it but it's worked well so kept it and have a few > computers/systems joined and using it. > > I intend to add the new 25.04 server as another dc and move fsmo over > to it then demote the 24.04 server and decomission it.That, in my opinion, would be a bad idea, 24.04 is an LTS version and 25.04 isn't and will go EOL next January.> This is just home lab, and I could also just start again fresh easily > but like the experience of migrating to new dc and demoting old one. > > please help advise what I need to do to get time sync setup and > working so I can progress. > > Another side thing is I've noticed that the original dc is still in > 2008 r2 levels, what is correct process to get to 2012r2?You don't, you now go to 2016. Rowland