1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter�2.�Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.2"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-general.html" title="Chapter�1.�General Information"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-ClientApp.html" title="Chapter�3.�Specific client application problems"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter�2.�Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-general.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">�</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-ClientApp.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="FAQ-Install"></a>Chapter�2.�Compiling and installing Samba on a Unix host</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2819477">My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-Install.html#id2819528">Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2819477"></a>My client reports "cannot locate specified share name" or similar</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
2This message indicates that your client CAN locate the specified
3server, which is a good start, but that it cannot find a service of
4the name you gave.
5</p><p>
6The first step is to check the exact name of the service you are
7trying to connect to (consult your system administrator). Assuming it
8exists and you specified it correctly (read your client's docs on how
9to specify a service name correctly), read on:
10</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>Many clients cannot accept or use service names longer than eight characters.</td></tr><tr><td>Many clients cannot accept or use service names containing spaces.</td></tr><tr><td>Some servers (not Samba though) are case sensitive with service names.</td></tr><tr><td>Some clients force service names into upper case.</td></tr></table></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2819528"></a>Why are my file's timestamps off by an hour, or by a few hours?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
11This is from Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com.
12</p><p>
13Most likely it's a problem with your time zone settings.
14</p><p>
15Internally, Samba maintains time in traditional Unix format,
16namely, the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Universal Time
17(or ``GMT''), not counting leap seconds.
18</p><p>
19On the server side, Samba uses the Unix TZ variable to convert
20internal timestamps to and from local time.  So on the server side, there are
21two things to get right.
22</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>The Unix system clock must have the correct Universal time. Use the shell command "sh -c 'TZ=UTC0 date'" to check this.</td></tr><tr><td>The TZ environment variable must be set on the server before Samba is invoked.  The details of this depend on the server OS, but typically you must edit a file whose name is /etc/TIMEZONE or /etc/default/init, or run the command `zic -l'.</td></tr></table><p>
23</p><p>TZ must have the correct value.</p><p>
24If possible, use geographical time zone settings
25(e.g. TZ='America/Los_Angeles' or perhaps
26 TZ=':US/Pacific').  These are supported by most
27popular Unix OSes, are easier to get right, and are
28more accurate for historical timestamps.  If your
29operating system has out-of-date tables, you should be
30able to update them from the public domain time zone
31tables at <a href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/" target="_top">ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/</a>.
32</p><p>If your system does not support geographical timezone
33settings, you must use a Posix-style TZ strings, e.g.
34TZ='PST8PDT,M4.1.0/2,M10.5.0/2' for US Pacific time.
35Posix TZ strings can take the following form (with optional
36											  items in brackets):
37</p><pre class="programlisting">
38	StdOffset[Dst[Offset],Date/Time,Date/Time]
39</pre><p>
40                where:
41</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>`Std' is the standard time designation (e.g. `PST').</td></tr><tr><td>`Offset' is the number of hours behind UTC (e.g. `8').
42Prepend a `-' if you are ahead of UTC, and
43append `:30' if you are at a half-hour offset.
44Omit all the remaining items if you do not use
45daylight-saving time.</td></tr><tr><td>`Dst' is the daylight-saving time designation
46(e.g. `PDT').</td></tr><tr><td>The optional second `Offset' is the number of
47hours that daylight-saving time is behind UTC.
48The default is 1 hour ahead of standard time.
49</td></tr><tr><td>`Date/Time,Date/Time' specify when daylight-saving
50time starts and ends.  The format for a date is
51`Mm.n.d', which specifies the dth day (0 is Sunday)
52of the nth week of the mth month, where week 5 means
53the last such day in the month.  The format for a
54time is [h]h[:mm[:ss]], using a 24-hour clock.
55</td></tr></table><p>
56</p><p>
57Other Posix string formats are allowed but you don't want
58to know about them.</p><p>
59On the client side, you must make sure that your client's clock and
60time zone is also set appropriately.  [[I don't know how to do this.]]
61Samba traditionally has had many problems dealing with time zones, due
62to the bizarre ways that Microsoft network protocols handle time
63zones.  
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