Hostname and IP address logging for Samba clients

[Kurt Wall]

In a 1.0K blaze of typing glory, 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
> 
> Is there a way to do this in Samba?  With dhcp in use on my network I
> would have no
> good clue about which machine is making transactions.  Since Windows
> machines connect
> to this server I need to know if one of them is inadvertantly passing
> viruses to me.
> 
> Inside /etc/samba/smb.conf I am currently using:
> 
> 	log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m:%I:%U
> 
> I wanted to have a log file to track each client but I can't get the
> hostname to appear, only the
> ip address which is not as helpful with dhcp clients.

Use the %M parameter, which gives you the client host name.

Kurt
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