Dave Hart wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Martin > Burnicki<martin.burni...@meinberg.de> wrote: > >> AFAICS this means recent w32time clients in a Windows domain would never >> accept reply packets from the PDC if ntpd instead of w32time is running on >> the PDC, even if either of the workarounds mentioned above is being used. >> Of course you could run ntpd also on the clients, which would accept the >> NTP daemon running on the server as their time source. >> > > You are correct. It is conceivable that one day ntpd will be enhanced > to perform MS-SNTP signing on Windows DCs. ntpd would then also need > to ensure the DC is advertised as a time source within the domain by > setting the registry value or whatever. > > >> However, the question is if other applications (e.g. databases) running on >> workstations or secondary servers try to find out whether the time of the >> machine they are running on is synchronized to the "network time", and >> complain if this is not the case. >> > > I do not believe so. > > >> If they do, then how do they do it? Do w32time clients also provide a >> registry setting or API to let other applications find out whether the >> system time is synchronized? If this is the case then it would not even >> help to install ntpd both on the PDC and on other servers and workstations. >> >> Unfortunately I don't have access to a Windows domain, so I'd like to ask if >> someone else in this group has experience with ntpd running in a domain of >> recent Windows versions? >> > > I run ntpd on a _a_ DC, but not on the DC acting as PDC. The PDC is > set to sync to the ntpd DC. > This puts the time control evidence model outside of the DC and increases the complexity of DC and PDCe type operations.
Todd > Cheers, > Dave Hart > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > questions@lists.ntp.org > https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.59/2310 - Release Date: 08/17/09 > 18:04:00 > > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
