Usage figures

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I know of know easy prebuilt way, but with perl and smbstatus you should be
able to do something meaningful.

I do not have anything like that written, but I could help if you if you
want to write something.

>
> When the students arrive in a few weeks, we will have several thousand
> registered samba users and (we anticipate) several hundred
> simultaneous
> Samba connections.  (This will be our first period of
> significant Samba
> use.)
>
> Our management folks are asking about collecting periodic Samba usage
> figures.  This is a bit vague, but something like a rolling count of
> simultaneous connections, per-user and/or per-interval disk
> usage etc.
> have been mentioned.
>
> I haven't seen anything in the documentation (2.0.4b) about
> this.  Have I
> missed it?  If so, where?  If not, does anyone know of either
> undocumented
> features or of work-in-hand/TO-DO in this regard?
>
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