Re: Samba file access checking?

Martijn Lievaart wrote:
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:45:34 +0000, Jim Ford wrote:

I want to get the IP address of any machine accessing the files on my
samba share. As I mentioned, I can do it by examining the output from
smbstatus, but feel that there must be a better way.

Parse the samba logs. Maybe swatch can help. Otherwise a very simple perlscript will do the trick.


That's what I've been doing so far. I just thought there would be a more 'direct' way of doing it - say through the proc fs (but there doesn't seem to be anything there an samba).

Thanks for the reply.

Jim Ford
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