[Samba] Re: smbfs timestamp problem

[Igor Belyi]

smbfs is not the same as Samba - they use although the same net 
protocol. You can try to put files into share with smbclient to see if 
Samba also has the same problem, but if it's smbfs specific you will 
need to go to the correct maintainer. You can also try to mount share 
with CIFS - they say it provides much better results than smbfs.

Igor

Nigel Roberts wrote:
> Here's a curly one.
> 
> I have a share mounted via smbfs on my linux desktop. This share is on
> a NetApp filer somewhere, but I've also tried this on a an old linux
> server as well, and I have the same problem. 
> 
> Basically, since day light savings came into effect here (NZDT or
> +13), any file I create on the share gets a time creation timestamp
> that is way out (approximately 12 hours and 48 minutes behind). This
> really confuses applications that rely on these times for normal
> operation, such as emacs.
> 
> If I create a file on the local file system, it gets the correct date.
> 
> Here's an example:
> 
> first local:
> 
> $ date && touch new && ls -l new
> Tue Oct  5 17:18:41 NZDT 2004
> -rw-r--r--  1 nigelr nigelr 0 2004-10-05 17:18 new
> $
> 
> and then the remote samba share:
> 
> $ date && touch new && ls -l new
> Tue Oct  5 17:17:22 NZDT 2004
> -rwxr--r--  1 nigelr nigelr 0 2004-10-05 04:30 new
> $
> 
> The date on both the servers are correct as they are using the same
> ntp time source as my desktop. If I create a file using windows to
> access the share, it get's the correct date (and it reads as the
> correct date using linux as well).
> 
> I'm using version 3.0.7 of the samba tools and I have a linux 2.6.8.1
> kernel.
> 
> Anyone seen anything like this before? Any suggestions?
> 
> Regards,
> Nigel