Missing option

[Sven Bünte]

Dear Mr. Sharpe!

I'm currently using samba 2.0.3, and I miss a nice feature of earlier
versions, may be you can help me:

I wanted to look, which files a special machine accessed (reading or
writeing) yesterday. So in the log-files I did not found anything about
this. So I wrote a file to a share and looked again for the filename in the
log-files. I've found nothing, even when switching to debug-level 10. But
instead of this, even in debug-level 0 I found a lot of (for me) useless
information of the smbd-server (like user xy has connected to a service,
connection closed...).

Can you tell me, is it possible to create such log-files like xferlog? If
yes, how? I did not found anything in the whole documentation.
If this is not possible, you (or someone else) should implement such a
feature. I think it would be very important to be able to track the
user-accesses.

Another feature you may implement in future versions:
The smb.conf file should give better control of how to access files and
subdirectories of a share, in the style of apache config-files. Even the
ProFTP-Daemon does this, and it is possible for example to deny writing in
one directory and deny reading in another or faking to other uids in another
dir. Because these ***-Windoze-stations are not able to handle
unix-user-rights.

With best regards,
Sven Buente