[Samba] Which log file?

[Peter Pollock]

That's great. I was not aware of that!

Thank you so much!

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020, 3:15 PM Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 02:35:28PM -0700, Peter Pollock via samba wrote:
> > I have two photocopiers.
> >
> > Both have the facility to can to a file on a file server via smb.
> >
> > Both configured identically.
> >
> > One can write to a samba share, the other cannot (same server, same
> share)
> >
> > I'm searching for a log somewhere that might show me why the write is
> > failing but I cannot see anything.
> >
> > Which log file on my fileserver would show me if the server is rejecting
> > the connection, please?
>
> From the smb.conf man page:
>
> log file (G)
>
>            This option allows you to override the name of the Samba log
> file (also known as the debug file).
>
>            This option takes the standard substitutions, allowing you to
> have separate log files for each user or machine.
>
>            No default
>
>            Example: log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m
>
> Set it as so, to get a separate log file for the
> incoming machine name.
>