Hi Peter Atkin, you wrote:
> Thanks for the update, I had to do a little modification to your very > good one liner.. I had problems getting consistent results, I found > out running the "preexec" as "root" seemed to solve that. you are right. In my case the special smb.conf entry only will be created, if the loglevel is >= 3 and smb.conf will be completely written via a shell script from an config file. Only root users can change the config file and create a new smb.conf via the script. This is only meant for debugging purposes from root users and thats why root preexec is not needed in my case. www.eisfair.org uses a special configuration concept - if you are able to read german, here ist a link to the documentation: http://www.devone.org/eisfair/doc/ > I am very new to Linux and have major difficulty with user and > directory rights, so i just did a work around. I'm also not an expert and working mostly under Windows ;) > This works very well so far, under both 2000 and XP, the "root > preexec" is all on one line. their are still some querks like when > this gets run via Terminal Services it does not display. but when a > simple e.g.: > > [source] > browseable = yes > path = /mnt/nas/source > valid users = @admin > read only = yes > write list = @admin, root > force create mode = 0775 > force group = admin > directory mask = 0775 > preexec = smbclient -U %L -M %m > </etc/samba/messages/source.txt > > Works well even under Terminal Services. And /etc/samba/messages/source.txt holds the information from smbinfo? [...] > echo "$message" >> /etc/samba/scripts/smbinfo > cp -f /etc/samba/scripts/smbinfo /mnt/nas/users/peter > > **** I have one question how can i direct the output of samba-smbinfo > to say a home account of a user. > e.g "/mnt/nas/users/%U" it seems when i do its i get "%U" as a file > name. You could move or copy the info to /mnt/nas/users/%U simply via smb.conf: root preexec = echo "\"T %T \" [...] \"a %a \"" | xargs -n1 /usr/local/bin/samba-smbinfo;\ smbclient -U "eisfair Samba Server" -M %m </tmp/samba-smbinfo;\ cp -f /etc/samba/scripts/smbinfo /mnt/nas/users/%U;\ rm -f /etc/samba/scripts/smbinfo & > Sorry for the long e-mail, and again thanks. You are welcome :) der tom -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
