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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