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Brian Simper wrote: | I am new to Samba but I set up a server and I am trying to get the | logging to my liking. | In /var/log/samba the entries are of the format: | | date.ipaddress.ipaddress | | I would prefer the logging to be: | | date.ipaddress:hostname | | I tried to do this with the /etc/samba/smb.conf setting: | | log file = /var/log/samba/%m:%M:%I.log | | The man page seems to indicate that either %m or %M | should include the hostname but I keep just getting | the IP address only.
Set 'hostname lookups = yes' ( and make sure you reverse DNS lookups work correctly).
| | I have tried setting "security = user" and I then | get the hostname but it asks for a password to connect | the share. With "security = share" I don't get the | password request but it then only logs the IP address.
I don't recommend security = share unless you really know what you are doing and why you want to use it. 'security = user' is much more intuitive.
| This is supposed to be a publicly available share. | I don't want to ask for a password but I do want | to get hostname information for
See the 'map to guest' parameter and possibly 'force user'
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