On 12/08/2013 11:47, Olo Burrows wrote:
Has anyone experienced a failure of the Meinberg ntp binaries to run on Windows
Server 2008 R2?
I have my suspicions that "something" is odd about this refurbished Dell R610
server with brand new installation of 2008 R2 because another package was balky when its
installation routine came to the point of installing it as a service.
I allowed it to take the many hours required to apply all the Windows Updates
to bring it current, who knows if one of those munged something on which ntp
depends.
Event Viewer was reporting a missing dependency of libeay.dll with VC90
(machine is at the shop and on an isolated network, so message is from memory).
I uninstalled ntp and re-installed it without OpenSSL support, then it
complained about the missing SSL support. Catch-22.
Regardless of the SSL issue the only consistent error message is that ntp
refused to start in a timely manner, which is evidenced by its refusal to start
period, but I can't pinpoint why. The firewall has exceptions, in fact I even
disabled the firewall temporarily and that didn't change anything. I've given
the ntp user ownership and full access permissions to that directory tree, no
good. I've uninstalled and rebooted and tried a number of tweaks, all to no
avail. I'm out of ideas and time at this point.
In the past year I have installed the Meinberg ntp distribution on a few other
64-bit Windows Server 2008 machines as well as a number of 32-bit machines all
without trouble. If I can't get it running on this one I'll have to rely on
another ntp server on the target network and hope that Windows sntp can sync
this machine to that source.
Thanks for any pointers to troubleshooting this. I can't say enough thanks to
the developers and maintainers of this package!
Olo,
There is a brief discussion of this issue here:
http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/setup.html#build
Scroll down to the paragraph: OpenSSL version issue
You could try the 4.2.7p348 binaries I have here:
http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/x86/index.html
or even a more recent version such as 4.2.7p382
--
Cheers,
David
Web: http://www.satsignal.eu
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