At Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:46:07 -0500 "Todor Fassl" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > is it possible that unix file timestamps having a greater precision > > than ntfs is causing windows to see a "change"? I know rsync has an > > option to combat this. > > > Well, I have no reason to believe that our Windows guy is correct and that > Windows downloads only changed files and samba downloads the whole profile. > I'm guessing he is basing that on how slow logins are. I can guarantee that > he hasn't actually checked it out. He either thought it up himself or he > heard it somewhere. Does anyone know if Windows does download only files > that have changed? > > Something just occured to me... Well, maybe this is a bug in samba but > probably not. When you join a machine to a domain where a time server is > configured, it doesn't automatically configure the time servers on the > client machine. > > On our network, the file server is the PDC. We have redundant BDCs which are > configured as time servers in samba and are also ntp servers for the linux > machines. If I boot a linux machine, I can use "ntpq -p" to make sure that > the machine is getting data from our ntp servers. But if I go into the > Windows control panel and look at "Date and Time", the server listed there > is time.windows.com. [Which, as it occurs to me, is also bogus in that what > the heck is windows.com? If its Microsoft, why isn't the default time server > time.microsoft.com?] dig time.windows.com => ;; ANSWER SECTION: time.windows.com. 3482 IN CNAME time.microsoft.akadns.net. time.microsoft.akadns.net. 158 IN A 65.55.21.13 Yes. windows.com is a real live domain name, (owned by Microsoft), and time.windows.com is a real host name with actual records. And it appears to be a legit time server. > > Anyway, it seems to me that if you join a machine to a domain with a time > server configured, it should show up in "Date and Time" -> Internet Time -> > Server. But our BDCs aren't even listed there. > > Gawd, I hate Windows. I don't hate Microsoft or Bill Gates. He seems like a > nice enough guy to me. And I don't blame him for getting to be a > bzillionaire even though his software kinda sucks. But, still, I hate > Windows. > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / [email protected] Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
