David Rankin wrote: > > Andrew, > > Since I got your message I've dived back into my mess with Samba > serving the wrong time. I'm pulling my hair out. Look at the following. > It doesn't make sense to me at all : (
I've looked at the snif you sent me. Your Samba is convinced it is in GMT. Looking a the code, this can occur if you system does't supply a gmtime() call or your system really thinks its in GMT. It tells the client this - the client should actually be able to say 'well i'm not gmt, so I'll add/subtract....' but in any case we can't expect too much of MS :-) I'm wondering if Samba is starting before the timezone is set... Can you kill off samba, and manually start it with 'smbd -D&& nmbd -D' (at a root prompt). > Ok, so what have I learned? > > (1) It appears to me that Samba serves time based upon the system > clock; > (2) Regardless of what the tz setting is, Samba is going to serve > the 'actual' time stored in the system clock regardless of the tz info; No, regardless of the time zone, samba thinks its in utc. Does 'gmtime()' work/exist on your system? (Write a small C proggy to test). That failing will set GMT without the slightest mention in the logs. > (3) As a result/consequence of (2) above, Samba ignores the tz > setting when serving time; and > (4) All of you who are telling me that you have your server > hardware clock and system clock set to UTC and are relying on the tz > setting to have Samba serve the correct time to your windows clients --- > I WANT TO KNOW HOW IN THE HECK YOU ARE DOING IT!!!! > > In the immortalized words of Tom Hanks: "That's about all I have to say > about that." > > I hope this is helpful, at least somewhat thorough with regard to the > problem I am experiencing. And I really hope that someone smarter than I > can point out to me, diplomatically of course, where I have my "CRI." I would rather like to get to the bottom of this some day... Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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