[Samba] Time synchronization problem. Chrony, ntp

Rowland Penny
2025-01-18T11:30:21Z

On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:27:37 +0000
Luis Peromarta via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> This works. Hopefully it?ll help you.
>
> http://samba.bigbird.es/doku.php?id=samba:install-chrony
>

Have I ever said that I hate Windows ?

Well, just in case I didn't:

I HATE WINDOWS.

Something as simple as providing a time server via DHCP doesn't appear
to work very well (if at all) on Windows, it seems you have to use a
GPO.

I only run one Windows 10 computer and that is in a VM and only when I
start it to test something.

Well I started it to check its 'time' and found out that it wasn't
using my pdc_emulator (address supplied by dhcp), it was using its
internal clock. All my Linux clients do use the time server supplied
via dhcp.

To get it to use the pdc_emulator, I had to do this:

open cmd prompt on the Windows PC and run as administrator

net stop w32time

then:

w32tm /config /syncfromflags:manual
/manualpeerlist:"rpidc1.samdom.example.com"

net start w32time

Running 'w32tm /query /status' still showed the 'local' clock as
time source, so:

w32tm /resync

To force a sync from the pdc_emulator

Running 'w32tm /query /status' again, now showed the pdc_emulator as
the time source.

Did I say that I hate Windows ?

Rowland