Samba file access checking?

[Jim Ford]

I'm checking Samba share files accessed on my Linux machine, using the
output of smbstatus to get the IP addresses of the machines. This seems
to me to be a kludgy way of doing it and the data appears to lag the
actual situation.

Is there a better way of doing this, anyone?

Jim Ford

 

[Joe Smith]

I'm checking Samba share files accessed on my Linux machine, using the
output of smbstatus to get the IP addresses of the machines. This seems
to me to be a kludgy way of doing it

What are you trying to accomplish?
*) Get the IP address of a file server
*) Get a list of shares available from file servers
*) Check that a specific share is writable by a particular client
?

 

[Jim Ford]

What are you trying to accomplish?
*) Get the IP address of a file server
*) Get a list of shares available from file servers
*) Check that a specific share is writable by a particular client
?

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.

Thanks for the reply!

Jim Ford

 

[Martijn Lievaart]

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.

HTH,
M4

 

[Jim Ford]

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