Hardy as a NTP Server for Lan

[David Curtis]

chris wrote:
> I'm having a bit of an issue that I can't seem to find the right answer for.
> 
> I have a Hardy 64 bit server that I'm working on configuring.
> 
> I have a pretty generic ntp.conf file (see below)   The problem is
> that Windows clients give the following error.
> 
> "An error occurred while Windows was synchronizing with 10.3.7.54.
> the time sample was rejected because: The peer's stratum is less than
> the host's stratum."

This error caught my eye. NTP works like this:

"A NTP primary server, also called of stratum 1, is a computer connected 
to an high precision reference clock and equipped with a NTP software. 
Other computers, called of stratum 2, equipped with a similar software, 
automatically query the primary server to synchronize their system 
clocks. The stratum 2 computers can synchronize other computers, called 
of stratum 3, and so on until 16 stratums".

				-http://toi.iriti.cnr.it/uk/ntp.html

As per the error, your windows machines are set to be a closer or equal 
stratum to the primary server as your ubuntu server is. Is this a static 
variable? Does it automatically configure itself? I don't know, but I 
have a suspicion the solution is to configure your windows boxen to be a 
higher stratum(farther away from the primary) than the ubuntu box, if 
that's at all possible.

<snip>

Dave