Hi Peter Atkin, you wrote:
> However i would like to do two things, > > 1) print samba veriables to a log file in a location of my choice > 2) When a windows test user logs on, i would like to display a > windowed dialog box showing the verious samba veriable stats. this is what I do in my samba package for www.eisfair.org (adapted from Joel ;): #! /bin/sh #---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ # /usr/local/bin/smbinfo - write info to /tmp/smbinfo # # Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Thomas Bork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # # Creation: 28.07.2002 tb # Last Update: 12.11.2002 tb # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. #---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ i=`echo "$1" | tr -s " "` index=`echo "$i" | cut -d" " -f1` value=`echo "$i" | sed 's/^. //'` case $index in T ) message="Datum/Zeit (%$index) = $value";; d ) message="PID des Servers (%$index) = $value";; v ) message="Samba-Version (%$index) = $value";; h ) message="(Internet)Hostname des Servers (%$index) = $value";; L ) message="NETBIOS-Name des Servers (%$index) = $value";; N ) message="NIS Heimat-Verzeichnis (%$index) = $value";; p ) message="Pfad des NIS-Heimatverzeichnisses (%$index) = $value";; R ) message="Ausgehandeltes Protokoll-Level (%$index) = $value";; S ) message="Name der aktuellen Freigabe (%$index) = $value";; P ) message="Hauptverzeichnis der aktuellen Freigabe (%$index) = $value";; U ) message="Vom Client angeforderter Benutzername (%$index) = $value";; G ) message="Primaere Gruppe des angeforderten Benutzers (%$index) = $value";; u ) message="Name des effektiven Benutzers (%$index) = $value";; g ) message="Primaerer Gruppenname des effektiven Benutzers (%$index) = $value";; H ) message="Heimatverzeichnis des effektiven Benutzers (%$index) = $value";; I ) message="IP Adresse des Client-Rechners (%$index) = $value";; M ) message="(Internet)Hostname des Client-Rechners (%$index) = $value";; m ) message="NETBIOS-Name des Client-Rechners (%$index) = $value";; a ) message="Betriebssystem des Client-Rechners (%$index) = $value";; esac echo "$message" >> /tmp/samba-smbinfo In smb.conf: [public] comment = public directory on vmeis path = /public public = yes create mode = 0777 directory mode = 0777 browseable = yes writable = yes oplocks = no level2 oplocks = no blocking locks = no preexec = echo "\"T %T \" \"d %d \" \"v %v \" \"h %h \" \"L %L \" \"N %N \" \"p %p \" \"R %R \" \"S %S \" \"P %P \" \"U %U \" \"G %G \" \"u %u \" \"g %g \" \"H %H \" \"I %I \" \"M %M \" \"m %m \" \"a %a \"" | xargs -n1 /usr/local/bin/samba-smbinfo;\ smbclient -U "eisfair Samba Server" -M %m </tmp/samba-smbinfo;\ rm -f /tmp/samba-smbinfo & vfs object = /usr/lib/samba/vscan-oav.so vfs options = config-file = /etc/vscan-oav.conf The echo statement till "/usr/local/bin/samba-smbinfo;\" is one line. Note that the file /tmp/samba-smbinfo holds the information and smbclient sends this to the client. In my case this file will be deleted after sending. Sorry @all for the long lines (84 chars) in my message. der tom -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba