Hi all, What does samba when advertizes itself as time-server? Do I need to synchronize stations any more ? Option ( global ) is : time server = yes ( True - default ) thanx. C-ya, Cristian POP ----------------------------------------------- "Only dead fish go with the flow." _______________________________________________
At 08:14 AM 4/12/00 +1000, Cristian POP wrote:>What does samba when advertizes itself as time-server? Do I need to >synchronize stations any more ?AFAIK this is simply an informational option. SMB has support for reading the time of day built in in any case. I tend to use xntpd on *IX machines and "net time \\servername /set /yes" in the logon script for Windows machines. Some people have told me that they get a "cleaner" effect by placing some synch-and-terminate NTP client program (e.g. NetDate) in the registry run key on Windows boxes (so they sync up with the NTP server each time they boot) and not using a batch-file type logon script at all, your milage may vary. In any event if you want your clocks to match up you will need to explicitly tell the Windows clients to synchronize their clocks with some time server, SMB is good for synchronization on logon or bootup, if you need your clocks "really" synchronized you should switch to some NTP client which runs constantly in the background (much the way xntpd does) because NTP has (I think) much finer time resolution than SMB. -- Who is this General Failure, and why is he reading my hard disk?
My samba is set up as a domain master and logon server for 6 win98 boxes and everything works fine except for the time server. Is this feature not supported by win98 or I'm doing something wrong?? I have samba 2.0.6 running on Red Hat Linux 6.2 and kernel 2.2.14. I have checked the logs and there's nothing about the time server. Should I increase the log level? Here are my global settings.... Thanks for any help [global] workgroup = ARDOR server string = Server ARDOR encrypt passwords = Yes null passwords = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* passwd chat debug = Yes unix password sync = Yes log level = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%u max log size = 50 time server = Yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 domain logons = Yes os level = 50 preferred master = Yes local master = No domain master = Yes wins support = Yes guest account = guest