Chris,

The firewall on the linux server is turned off completely for this part, so I 
know that's not it.  It very well could be a firewall issue on the DC, however, 
without a login I cannot confirm.  I can only believe what I'm told, and that 
is that it's on and working...

I am curious if you have any special settings in your ntp.conf file however?

Thanks!
Mike

--- On Wed, 9/30/09, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Chris <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: using a MS SNTP server for linux
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 9:21 PM
> 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
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 



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