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After reading the instructions at https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Time_Synchronisation, I still have questions about how samba interacts with nptd. The issue is that LXD doesn't want containers setting the time and so won't start ntpd at container startup even though it's enabled in systemd. The host does sync it's time with a national time server, so we can assume that the host's time is good enough for my purposes. I c...

Hi, I have a couple of FreeBSD-servers that I try to manage using puppet. I''m just trying it out at the moment and have just deployed 5 new boxes (from PXE and scripted installation so supposedly they are all identical except for the name and ip-addresses). On two of the servers I get the error-messages at the bottom of the post. The first error- message I get every time I run puppet on

I use a CentOS5.8 server with KVM. I have several virtual machines running on it. When I reboot the server (takes 10 minutes) all VMs are saved and correctly restored. The time on the clients is however of by 10 minutes. nptd is running on the clients and that is able to correct this big mismatch. But what I don't understand is that the host does not seem to help the client with it's timekeeping. On a fedora16 machine I can tell that kvm-clock is being used: cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/avai...