[Samba] Absolute path of file transferred using samba

HariK hhariprasad at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 05:12:43 MST 2009


Thanks Volker. Can you provide me any resource link that provides some
tutorial on VFS? I shall google and find out but you might know some better
resources. 


Volker Lendecke wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:36:40PM -0800, HariK wrote:
>> My interest is not in the audit module as such. I have a custom
>> application
>> running in uclinux that maintains a database for all entries in a
>> directory
>> say /mydir. When I add files or folders into the directory mydir using
>> samba, I want my database to get updated correspondingly. My idea is to
>> establish a message queue between my application and smbd, smbd will post
>> messages with the file or folder path in the message.
> 
> Does uclinux support inotify? Then that might be the best
> API to use.
> 
>> Could you please let me know in which file(s) of samba's source can I do
>> the
>> changes to hook the message queue creation and message posting stuff. It
>> should be in the sources wherein the absolute destination path of the
>> file
>> or folder that is copied from windows using samba is visible.
> 
> You might want to write a VFS module that hooks into the
> open call. That has access to both the absolute share path
> (via "handle->conn->connectpath") and the relative file
> name. From that you can calculate the absolute share path.
> To set up the messaging path to your database daemon, you
> want to hook into the VFS connect call.
> 
> Volker
> 
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