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.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Christoph Scheeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <samba@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.
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