[Samba] Logging the hostname with a Samba share connection
Brian Simper
bsimper at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 16:11:32 GMT 2004
I am new to Samba but I set up a server and I am trying to get the
logging to my liking.
In /var/log/samba the entries are of the format:
date.ipaddress.ipaddress
I would prefer the logging to be:
date.ipaddress:hostname
I tried to do this with the /etc/samba/smb.conf setting:
log file = /var/log/samba/%m:%M:%I.log
The man page seems to indicate that either %m or %M should include the
hostname but I keep just getting the IP address only.
I have tried setting "security = user" and I then get the hostname but
it asks for a password to connect the share. With "security = share"
I don't get the password request but it then only logs the IP address.
This is supposed to be a publicly available share. I don't want to
ask for a password but I do want to get hostname information for
tracking. With dhcp in use on my network I would have no good clue
about which machine is making transactions. Since Windows machines
connect to this server I need to know if one of them is inadvertantly
passing viruses to me.
This is a ProLiant DL 380 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0. Any ideas?
Thanks,
--
-Brian
bsimper at gmail.com
simper at qwest.net
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