Samba logging behavior on new files

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Bala wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I have home made program, which uses File Alteration Monitor library
> to watch samba log files for new file creation in samba share
> directory.
> 
> This technique works fine when I use GNU/Linux machine as client and
> it fails when I use Windows machine as client.  The cause of failure
> is, samba server creates different pattern of logs and sometimes it
> does not create log entries on new file creation.
> 
> New file creation is done by copying file to share directory after
> mounting it.
> 
> Log configuration of samba server is
>         log file = /var/log/samba/%U.log
>         log level = 2

I don't understand what your problem is.

> Below is log entries when GNU/Linux is used.
> 
> [2007/03/20 18:01:18, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
>   b2bc1ir opened file outbox/echoserver read=Yes write=Yes (numopen=1)
> [2007/03/20 18:01:18, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_mknew(1324)
>   new file outbox/echoserver
> [2007/03/20 18:01:18, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(270)
>   b2bc1ir closed file outbox/echoserver (numopen=0)
> 
> Below is log entries when Windows is used.
> 
...

Linux clients and Windows clients do different operations
to achieve the same result.  What are you expecting?




cheers, jerry
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