isn't there a smbstatus -u=<username>, to show activities from 1 user ?? dunno, guess the -u is a way to sort out what a user is up to!
i'll try to lookin to the rest.. l8r ----------------------------------------------------- Collen Blijenberg (Montessori Lyceum Herman Jordan) Wednesday, June 16, 2004, 3:02:13 PM, you wrote: BR> Hi, BR> well I think it should be able to run in a console, just like Midnight BR> Commander (so it's also usefull without X), BR> it should have a menu for info about the system, like cpu BR> usage, network card usage,memory, how many users are currently attached to BR> the system, up time. BR> A menu from which you can see that what user is attached to what share, and BR> if you press enter on the user name you can see what files are currently in BR> use. BR> It's almost like smbstatus, only that it's a bit more organized, and is BR> easier to view what is happening on the system in case someone causes BR> trouble it is easier to find what user had that file open. Also it would be BR> nice if in this same menu besides the username and what share that user is BR> using there would be information about user logon time. BR> Sincerely BR> Robert B BR> ----- Original Message ----- BR> From: "Collen Blijenberg <MLHJ>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BR> To: "Jeremy Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BR> Cc: "samba mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BR> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 08:50 BR> Subject: Re[2]: [Samba] a better smbstatus for monitoring samba ? >> depends on it... >> what needs to be in the tool ??? >> what options, and all... >> >> (got a big holyday comming up, so got some time to crack!) >> >> l8r >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> Collen Blijenberg (Montessori Lyceum Herman Jordan) >> >> Wednesday, June 16, 2004, 3:26:43 AM, you wrote: >> >> JA> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:56:04PM +0200, Becskei Robert wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> does anyone know if there is a tool in existence that can >> >> monitor samba shares like smbstatus >> >> but is much more advanced (and runs in console) , I mean a tool that BR> has menues, some search >> >> options, and things sorted out nice. A Samba realtime monitor >> >> would be the best thing with lots >> >> of details and lots of options. >> >> >> >> >> >> I tried Swat, but that aint really a solution to watch who is >> >> connected to where, neither is smbstatus >> >> since when to many people are connected you can't see in >> >> realtime who is using what. And that I think >> >> is one major problem. >> >> >> >> I would like to have such a tool because I'm throwing the >> >> Novell File Server out and using a Whitebox 3.0EL >> >> instead. I wonder,...is there such a tool like Novell Monitor >> >> ... for linux ? I mean if there aint one for samba >> >> maybe another tool that is more advanced would be able to view >> >> who is connected to what ? what is their IP >> >> adress, what time did they logged on, what is the current system BR> status, etc... >> >> JA> No tool I know of currently. If anyone wants to write one (maybe a gui BR> tool >> JA> written in python ?) I'd be happy to integrate it into the source BR> code. >> >> JA> There are lots of admin options that could be added to Samba via TDB BR> messaging >> JA> to perform admin operations - we just need programmer enthusiasm to BR> write such >> JA> a tool. Anyone game ? >> >> JA> Jeremy. >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >> instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba