[Samba] Samba logging behavior on new files

[Bala]

Hi, 

I trashed my stupid idea/program and wrote samba VFS module to do
the same thing.  It works very well.

> 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
> 
> 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.
> 
> [2007/03/25 21:48:53, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
>   b2bc1ir opened file outbox/test.txt read=No write=Yes (numopen=2)
> [2007/03/25 21:48:53, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(270)
>   b2bc1ir closed file outbox/test.txt (numopen=1)
> [2007/03/25 21:48:54, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
>   b2bc1ir opened file outbox/test.txt read=Yes write=No (numopen=2)
> [2007/03/25 21:48:54, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(270)
>   b2bc1ir closed file outbox/test.txt (numopen=1)
> [2007/03/25 21:48:54, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
>   b2bc1ir opened file outbox/test.txt read=Yes write=No (numopen=2)
> [2007/03/25 22:00:07, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
> 
> 
> I use CentOS v4.4 and Samba version 3.0.10-1.4E.9
> 
> What could be wrong in my setup?
> 


Thanks,

Bala


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