[Samba] Problems with smbd log

[John Benedetto]

Are you sure it's not the clients crashing, causing the gaps in the logs?

- jb

--On Thursday, September 12, 2002 5:33 PM +0200 viktor at halopont.hu wrote:

> All,
>
> I use debian+samba2.2.3+apache+php+mysql in a netcafe for being an nt
> domain server and a charging software. Clients are win98.
> My problem is that the log is not reliable.
> Sometimes I do not even see the login session, sometimes it says that the
> pc logged off but not and so on. I have problems with about the 5% of the
> logins.
> To my best knowledge my script is not buggy from this point of view.
> Any idea?
>
> Details:
> I expanded the log by:
> log level=2
> debug pid=1
> With this I know the windows login date, user, pid of the samba child and
> the logoff date. I use the 'netbios connect', 'closing connections' and
> 'connect to service netlogon' items in the log for identifying the session
> events.
> I load the results into mysql for administration and later statistics.
> The script is running since February and this is the only problem.
> Is this theory wrong?
> Please do not answer that I should download a special admin sw for
> netcafes... :-)
>
> Regards,
> Viktor