Hi,
At the moment registry edit is only thing that works.
SH
On 06/08/2025 22.45, Carlos Jesus via samba wrote:> Hi all, a bit late to the party, but here it goes.
> After updating from 4.17.9 to 4.21.5 (last June, from bookworm
> Backports) my Chrony conf stopped working for windows pcs; it works
> fine for linux members. I always get "The computer did not resync
> because no time data was available".
> Not exactly sure when it stopped since, in the meantime, I also
> raised functional level to 2016 using ad dc functional level = 2016 in
> smb.conf (followed
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Raising_the_Functional_Levels)
> I (re)checked https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Time_Synchronisation
> and http://samba.bigbird.es/doku.php?id=samba:install-chrony but no
> matter what I did I could not get it to work.
> The only thing that worked out of the box was the registry hack.
> Right now, the pcs with hack work just fine, the others "no data is
available"
>
> Did I miss something, or is this still a thing? Any other solution
> that doesn't break authentication?
> Best regards!
>
> Luis Peromarta via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> escreveu (ter?a,
> 11/03/2025 ?(s) 10:48):
>> This is my same experience, never needed the reg key nor I could
reproduce the problem if following my notes in samba.bigbird.es
>>
>> All the best.
>> On 11 Mar 2025 at 10:30 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger via samba <samba
at lists.samba.org>, wrote:
>>> Am 10.03.25 um 18:13 schrieb Peter Milesson via samba:
>>>
>>>> Hi Stefan,
>>>>
>>>> I can confirm that setting
>>>>
>>>>
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\w32time\TimeProviders\NtpClient/
>>>> SignatureAuthAllowed
>>>>
>>>> to 0 is working. You don't need any more complex GPOs than
that. I have
>>>> tried it with Windows 7, Windows 10 and Windows 11.
>>>>
>>>> On the flip side, the clients will synchronize with the DCs,
the
>>>> drawback is naturally, without the security features. Any other
method
>>>> previously described, where time data is supplied by external
servers,
>>>> is a last resort option.
>>> thank you.
>>>
>>> So far the customer told me that all the tested PCs (Windows 11)
have
>>> the correct time today after setting up samba with chrony
yesterday.
>>>
>>> bingo
>>>
>>> I don't have that registry key in place, I think. I'd have
to check on
>>> site ... that might have been set years ago. But I assume: no.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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