[ntp:questions] Synchronizing Linux clients with Windows Server 2003 NTP

george_joby kottayamachayen at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 17:25:20 UTC 2007


Our requirement is all our linux and nonstop systems synchronise to the
Windows 2003 server. We do not want Windows to syncronise with an
external clock and it should just synchronise with its internal clock.

So what I am doing is just configuring with a client (Redhat Linux) and
server (windows 2003) to check whether Linux gets synchronise with
Windows server and that is not happening. Our customer need this setup.

If i see the ntpq -pn in Linux it will show the correct offset and also
ntpdate works fine. But Linux not ready to synchronise with Server.

[root at txnaslload03 ~]# ntpq -pn
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset
jitter
==============================================================================
 16.74.32.162    .LOCL.           1 u  967 1024  377    0.355  -180.34
 5.407

Thanks
George

Ry wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>
> > Isn't port 123 UDP inbound required as well?
>
> Not on a stateful firewall, which are the most common type these days.
> In most firewall configuration tools, "allow UDP port 123 outbound"
> means that when a outbound packet is sent, the firewall will remember
> seeing it (that's the *stateful* part) allow a return UDP packet(s)
> from the destination IP and source port for a few seconds before
> closing things off again.
>
> This assumes all he is doing is configuring his NTP to act as a client
> to an internet-based NTP server. If he is going to be using
> symmetric/active or another mode, that's going to require allowing UDP
> port 123 inbound. But it doesn't seem to me that he would need to do
> anything like that.




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