[Samba] Re: Logon Hours problems (really stuck)

[David Wilson]

Hi guys,

I've finally got this working.
All I did was set the timezone to GMT and then adjust the time using 'date' 
so that it matched our current localtime in South Africa.
Everything now seems to work 100%.

Could it be that Samba only follows GMT time ?

Kindest regards
David Wilson
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christoph Scheeder" <christoph.scheeder at scheeder.de>
To: "David Wilson" <dave at dcdata.co.za>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: Logon Hours problems (really stuck)


> Hi,
> yes that definitly sounds like a problem with the timezone-settings on the 
> local
> server, or a mismatch between timezones set on the server and the clients.
> Doubblecheck they are consistent and in sync.
> Last year i had on client pc of a customer beleave it was summertime but 
> in fact
> that ended a week before.
> Result were, all files from this client stored to the samba server got
> timestamps 2 hours back in time. I guess if they had defined kickofftimes 
> this
> machine would have been kicked 2 hours too early. doesn't that sound a 
> little
> familiar to you?
> Fixed the clients timesetting and all was fine again.
> Christoph
>
> David Wilson schrieb:
>> Hi Christoph,
>>
>> I haven't tried what you suggested yet however there is definitely 
>> something wrong with the time on my Samba server:
>> In my smb.conf I have the following under my [netlogon] share which 
>> creates a log indicating user login times:
>> preexec = echo "%u logged into %h from %m (%I) at %T running %a." >> 
>> /tmp/samba-login.log
>>
>> What is interesting is that the time indicated in my /tmp/samba-login.log 
>> is two hours behind the actual time on the server (which is synched to an 
>> international time server). This is what I get in the log:
>> aw088 logged into tux from lab4_6_208 (10.0.6.208) at 2005/02/04 08:39:25 
>> running WinXP.
>>
>> If I type "date" on the server this is what I get:
>> Fri Feb  4 10:39:06 SAST 2005
>>
>> As you can see, Samba believes it's two hours behind the actual (correct) 
>> time of the server.
>> The "time offset = 120" option in the smb.conf does not seem to make any 
>> difference.
>>
>> Is this still related to the hardware clock issues etc. you've mentioned 
>> below ?
>> Thanks for all your help so far, greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Kindest regards
>> David Wilson
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>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christoph Scheeder" 
>> <christoph.scheeder at scheeder.de>
>> To: "David Wilson" <dave at dcdata.co.za>
>> Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:44 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: Logon Hours problems (really stuck)
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> what i do is the following setup for linux-servers and time:
>>> 1.) set hardware-clock to GMT,
>>> 2.) tell the system the hardwareclock is set to GMT (how depends on 
>>> distro)
>>> 3.) set local timezone to GMT+2                  (again, depends on 
>>> distro)
>>> 4.) check all win-Clients to have the correct timezone set
>>> after that your system-clock should be showing the correct time in 
>>> linux,
>>> and samba should use the correct kickoff times.
>>> as a sideefect it gives you the possibility to use ntp to sync your 
>>> clock with
>>> any timeserver out there in the internet.
>>> Christoph
>>>
>>> David Wilson schrieb:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately this is still happening I've tried restarting Samba. 
>>>> Users who should be denied access after 21:00 are being denied access 
>>>> at 19:00.
>>>>
>>>> Our time zone in South Africa is GMT+2. Perhaps I should set the 
>>>> timezone on the server to UTC/GMT ?
>>>> Do you think this will help ? Should I then leave the time set to the 
>>>> current time in South Africa ? Or should I set the time to the time at 
>>>> UTC/GMT ?
>>>>
>>>> There's something I must be missing here.
>>>>
>>>> Kindest regards
>>>> David Wilson
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>>>> D c D a t a
>>>> Tel +27 33 342 7003
>>>> Fax +27 33 345 4155
>>>> Cell +27 82 4147413
>>>> http://www.dcdata.co.za
>>>> support at dcdata.co.za
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>>>
>>>
>>
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