Tracking users logging in and out

[Antony Healey]

Hi,

This isn't strictly a Samba question, but administrators may have come across it.

We'd like to be able to log user events (logging in and out) which dates and times to a central file. Trolling through the multitude of log files we generate (one per machine with over 200 machines gets icky), so we figured on a syslog style method using LOCAL7 or similar.

This is proving a little difficult to find.

An alternative idea was the send a message on login and logout (maybe with the logon.bat script) to the PDC, but "net send" fails as Samba doesn't accept the message. I'm assuming that's an RPC "issue".

Does any have any ideas on how to track these user events to the PDC (or any unix remote server)?

Regards,
Antony.
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