From: robin_listas@es.invalid

On 2025-12-30 23:12, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:43:41 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>
>> You see, the file stopped logging 10 months ago, so no data. It
>> started working again when ChatGPT helped me to refine and update
>> the configuration file.
>
> Here’s another logging tip, that I suspect ChatGPT doesn’t “know”
> about: set your per-user logfile name format to something like
>
>      /var/log/samba/log.%I-%R
>
> What this does is record the client IP address and the protocol
> version they’re using, in the logfile name. I have found this
> particularly handy for figuring out why some Windows clients could not
> connect -- the usual reason was that they were requiring an older
> protocol version, or an older password format.

Interesting.

How do you set it up?

What I have is simply

         # Logging
         log level = 1

in /etc/samba/smb.conf

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Cheers, Carlos.
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