Dear Red Hatters,
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:31:12 -0500, I wrote:
> A user commented that he had been trying to "log in" to our Samba
> server and couldn't. I thought, "Gee...I didn't notice any failed
> logins..." I checked under /var/log/samba/<host>.log and, behold, a
> multitude of authentication failures!
>
> Although I hadn't configured syslog = 2, which would be necessary to
> get these debug level 1 messages, I noticed then that I'm not getting
> _any_ syslog output from samba.
>
> An examination of the samba.spec from samba-2.2.1a-4.src.rpm shows that
> the --with-syslog configuration option is not being used.
>
> Is there a good reason for this? (I don't know who the package
> maintainer is, but he's likely to be connected to this list somehow.)
> Is it because the use of --with-syslog would include "experimental
> SYSLOG support," as the configure script says? What is experimental
> about it?
>
> I'd like to modify the samba.spec and rebuild the binary RPMS, but I'm
> wondering if there is a good reason not to use syslog with Samba.
This I did, and the results were great. Now my swatch process that
tails /var/log/{maillog,messages,secure} is showing me important Samba
stuff as well.
I must say, though, that the Windows management of SMB is very strange
at times. A user will fail authentication dozens of times in a single
second at times, and the same client will sometimes connect to a
service repeatedly when a single connection would seem to suffice. The
first of those issues may be a result of attempts to permute password
case. At any rate, the output is a little noisy.
Truly,
Jonathan
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