I work in an environment with hundreds of Linux and Windows systems
and we use our DC's as the time source for all of our systems. While
it is true that older Windows systems did not work well, I have not
seen any issues with 2k3's time server as an NTP server for Linux
clients.
Do you know if the Windows server has it's firewall enabled? I could
see that causing problems, that friggin firewall is a total pain in
the @$!. And, are you sure that iptables on your Linux server is not
blocking the outbound ntp query? Check to make sure that UDP port 123
is open. You can run iptables -L to show your iptables ruleset (if
Ubuntu uses iptables).
Good luck,
Chris Adams
On Sep 29, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Mike Raley wrote:
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
