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

Fri Mar 4 07:48:58 GMT 2005

Hi guys,

Any takers on this ? I'm really not sure where else to turn to ?

Kindest regards
David Wilson
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Wilson" <dave at dcdata.co.za>
To: "Christoph Scheeder" <christoph.scheeder at scheeder.de>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: Logon Hours problems (really stuck)

> Hi guys,
>
> Thanks for all your help with this but I'm still stuck.
> The logon hours restrictions worked 100% after I set the timezone to GMT 
> and set the clock to our local time here in South Africa. I then upgraded 
> the Samba version to 3.0.11 and suddenly the logon hours restrictions went 
> wrong again. I've tried all combinations op "time offset" in the smb.conf 
> and tried changing the timezone back to SAST but still no luck.
> I've now downgraded back to Samba-3.0.9 and set the timezone back to GMT 
> however this time things still seem out by 2 hours e.g. 2 hours need to be 
> added to the logon times to allow users to log in whereas before this 
> seemed to work perfectly.
> Could this really be a Slackware Linux issue ? The timezone and time 
> settings on the workstations are 100% correct.
>
> Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
> Many thanks.
>
> 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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> "Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are."
>
> ----- 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
>>> _______________________________
>>> 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
>>> Powered by Linux, driven by passion !
>>> _______________________________
>>>
>>> "Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are."
>>>
>>> ----- 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
>>>>> _______________________________
>>>>> 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
>>>>> Powered by Linux, driven by passion !
>>>>> _______________________________
>>>>>
>>>>> "Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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