[Samba] sambaLogonHours and timezones

[David Wilson]

Hi guys,

Any ideas on this one ?
I've really tried everything now from what I can see.

Could it be a problem with the SAST tmezone implementation under Linux ?
Is there anyone else I can contact about this problem ?

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: "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] sambaLogonHours and timezones


> Hi Jerry,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> The time on the server is set to localtime, the timezone set to SAST 
> (GMT+2) as are all the XP workstations.
> The time on the server and workstations is correct.
>
> Any ideas why my values are out by 2 hours each time ?
>
> Thanks for your help so far.
>
> Kind regards
>
> David Wilson
> CNS, CLS, Linux+
> 033 3427003
> 082 4147413
> 0860-1-LINUX
> support at dcdata.co.za
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org>
> To: "David Wilson" <dave at dcdata.co.za>
> Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 1:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] sambaLogonHours and timezones
>
>
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>> David Wilson wrote:
>> | Hi guys/girls,
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>> | 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
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>> sambaLogonHours is localtime.  Not GMT IIRC.
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>> cheers, jerry
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