[Samba] sambaLogonHours and timezones

[David Wilson]

Hi guys,

Any takers ?


Kind regards

David Wilson
CNS, CLS, Linux+
033 3427003
082 4147413
0860-1-LINUX
support at dcdata.co.za


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Wilson" <dave at dcdata.co.za>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 2:16 PM
Subject: sambaLogonHours and timezones


> Hi guys/girls,
>
> How are you keeping ?
>
> A while ago I mentioned a problem that I'm picking up with Samba with 
> OpenLDAP and the "logon hours" restrictions which are implemented via the 
> NT 4.0 User Manager.
>
> Basically my problem was that users were unable to login 2 hours before 
> the actual restriction should kick in.
> At the time I thought that perhaps the problem was caused by Slackware 
> Linux and it's timezone implementation of SAST (GMT+2).
> Since then I've experienced the same problem on SLES9 and Suse Linux 9.3.
>
> From what I can see, the "sambaLogonHours" value is always set with GMT in 
> mind.
> Because in South Africa we are at GMT+2 Samba enforces restrictions 2 
> hours before it should.
> For example if users should only denied login access at 16:00, Samba is 
> denying them access at 14:00.
>
> I've looked all over and cannot find a solution to the problem other than 
> adding two hours to the logon hours restrictions for each user when using 
> the NT User Manager tool.
>
> Does anyone know of a workaround for this ? Is there a way to get Samba to 
> check the time zone on the server first and make calculations before 
> writing values for the "sambaLogonHours" attribute ?
>
> Links/references:
> Explanation of feature: http://www.archive-two.com/new-2794385-2895.html
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-December/038271.html
> http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20051006.181854.4d7c50dc.en.html
> http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20050701.071531.eeffd7e5.en.html
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-February/099778.html
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kind regards
>
> David Wilson
> CNS, CLS, Linux+
> 033 3427003
> 082 4147413
> 0860-1-LINUX
>