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Hello, I have multiple samba DC for different domains running on a single box. I read a little bit up on time synchronisation and now configured it. It seems to work. My question is, what happens when multiple DCs go to the same ntp_signd/socket, will it work? Or should I configure one socket per DC instance? Cheers, Thomas

...otherwise you also can't use nss_winbindd for each domain. However if you must, then you would have to set up multiple ntpd instances bound to each IP and pointing to the correct Samba. Finally, in general I suggest avoiding 'neat hacks' because while it is amazing to create a special snowfake, it is also delicate and more likely to get broken by some upstream change that never expected your environment. You are saved a little by the fact that Samba's selftest system does essentially this (but uses nss_wrapper to get around the one nsswitch.conf issue). Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew...