While we are discussing samba today, here's a little tip for the newbies out there. (well it is a newbie list) This is particularly useful if you have used SWAT to set up your samba.
if once you have samba working you open KDE Control Center > Information > Samba status you will (probably) be able to see any active samba shares, but see no information in the log or statistics tabs, and at the bottom of the exports tab you see a message "Samba 2.2.1a Error: Unable to run showmount" To fix it do this :- In your users .bash_profile change the line beginning "PATH" to PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/sbin This will make the error message go away after you next log in, and any active NFS shares will appear in the 'Exports' tab as well as the samba ones. If you have used SWAT to set up your Samba, then the default log file it creates will be /var/log/samba/log.username and there will be a different log for each windows users samba activity. To show a combined log in KDE samba status then configure SWAT to use the Log file /var/log/samba/log. and configure samba status to use the same file. By default SWAT sets the log level to 0 which is no logging. You have to select 'Advanced Options' in SWAT to see the field to change it. Slelect log level 1 for info of who is mounting samba shares, and log level 2 for information on each file accessed. Level 3 is for the severely paranoid. Once you have changed the log level, SWAT will then show that field in the 'Basic' view. You will now be able to view the log and statistics windows in KDE Samba status. Hope that has helped someone Derek
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