Rick, any advice offered is never a waste of time! Unfortunately MS claims, NTP will just work. LIES! ;)
specifically this is what I'm getting: r...@host-name:~# ntpdate <ip address> 29 Sep 10:31:49 ntpdate[3946]: no server suitable for synchronization found which from my investigations is what I would get given MS's crappy time deamon. thanks anyways! Mike --- On Tue, 9/29/09, Rick White <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Rick White <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: using a MS SNTP server for linux > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 10:10 AM > No wisdom here, but idle googling > turned up this TechNet document on the subject: > Appendix H: Configuring Time Services for a Heterogeneous > UNIX and Windows Environment > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463171..aspx > > Some solutions involve editing the Windows registry, which > is OTQ, but the last section: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463171.aspx#EAAA > might possibly be relevant. > > If this is completely off-base, sorry to waste your time. > > Rick > > --- On Tue, 9/29/09, Mike Raley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > From: Mike Raley <[email protected]> > > Subject: using a MS SNTP server for linux > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 9:44 AM > > Morning all, > > > > I figure I know the unfortunate answer to my question, > but > > I'm hoping the wisdom of this crowd will once again > prove me > > wrong. I have an Ubuntu server which needs to use a > > Windows 2003 Domain Controller as it's authoritative > time > > server. Yes, I know, this is an abomination, but in > > this case 100% unavoidable. It's either this or > wildly > > off on time (bad). Has anyone actually gotten this > to > > work? Using NTP is out as MS uses SNTP (broken as > > usual). I've tried msntp also to no avail. > > Gladly taking suggestions! > > > > Oh, in addition, I do not even have login rights to > the DC, > > much less Administrator privileges, so changing that > is out > > of the question. > > > > Thanks! > > Mike > > > > > > > > > > > >
