[Samba] Viewing Open Files with Computer Management

Nick Couchman nick.e.couchman at gmail.com
Wed May 26 18:03:53 UTC 2021


Hello, everyone,
I'm wondering if it is possible to use the Computer Management MMC in
modern versions of Windows to view "Sessions" and "Open Files" on a Samba
server? Currently when I try to access either Sessions or Open Files I get
the following error messages:

Sessions: You do not have permissions to see the list of sessions from
Windows clients.
Open Files: You do not have permissions to see the list of files opened by
Windows clients.

I've done some Google searching on this issue and found a couple of
suggestions:
1) Grant the user (or group) the SeDiskOperatorPrivilege on the Samba
server.
2) Per a mailing list thread from 2017, create a username map and map the
users who need this capability to "root" (
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2017-December/212608.html).

Item 1 seems to have no effect at all - errors are the same - and for item
2, when I run "smbstatus" I can see the username and group both set to
"root", but I still get the error messages.

Any hints or suggestions on what to look at - or if this is even possible?

-Nick


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