| 1 | SmbMon - Samba Server Status Monitor Version 0.9.25
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| 2 | ===================================================
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| 3 |
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| 4 | CONTENTS:
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| 5 |
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| 6 | 1. Introduction
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| 7 | 2. Installation
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| 8 | 3. Usage
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| 9 | 4. Author
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| 10 |
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| 11 |
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| 12 | 1. Introduction:
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| 13 | ----------------
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| 14 |
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| 15 | This is a utility that presents the output of smbstatus smbd in a convenient
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| 16 | notebook GUI with 6 pages:
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| 17 |
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| 18 | - Users
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| 19 | - Files
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| 20 | - Services
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| 21 | - Daemons
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| 22 | - LAN Ressources
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| 23 | - Settings
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| 24 |
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| 25 | 2. Installation:
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| 26 | ----------------
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| 27 |
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| 28 | Put smbmon.exe into the Samba directory and create an object for it.
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| 29 | Make sure you have smb.cmd from the smb_init* package in the Samba
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| 30 | directory.
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| 31 |
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| 32 | 3. Usage:
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| 33 | ---------
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| 34 |
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| 35 | The presentation of the information is pretty straightforward from what
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| 36 | smbstatus smbd shows, with the exception of the files page, which is IMHO
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| 37 | organized in a more efficient way.
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| 38 |
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| 39 | Right clicking on the heads of the columns opens a context menu, which
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| 40 | allows to customize which columns should be shown. THis layout is saved
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| 41 | across sessions.
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| 42 |
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| 43 | The status refreshes itself every 60 seconds per default, but this is can be
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| 44 | configured using the spinbutton at the bottom of the window. A timed refresh
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| 45 | only happens as long smbmon is in not in the background. If it is brought to
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| 46 | the foreground, all pages are refreshed immediately.
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| 47 |
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| 48 | The users page has a context menu, which enables the user to send netmsg/
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| 49 | winpopup style messages to other machines.
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| 50 |
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| 51 | The service page has a context menu, which enables the user to force the
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| 52 | closing of the selected share.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | The daemon page can be displayed in 2 different styles:
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| 55 | - The details view (this has been there from the start)
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| 56 | - The icon tree view. This view shows which process ID corresponds to which
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| 57 | user and which files are opened by this user (so in case something goes wrong
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| 58 | you get an idea what might be affected or even what might be the reason for
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| 59 | the problem).
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| 60 | - The daemon page has a context menu, which enables the user to selectively
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| 61 | stop daemons. In addition the user can ping either a daemon or a single PID
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| 62 | of a daemon.
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| 63 |
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| 64 | On the bottom of the daemon page the server uptime is displayed. This value
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| 65 | is determined from the timestamp of nmbd.pid, which does not change during
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| 66 | the time the server is run. If nmbd.exe is not used, this value will be empty.
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| 67 |
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| 68 | The LAN ressources page always has to be refreshed manually as it takes some
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| 69 | time to complete operation. As long as smbmon is single threaded this blocks
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| 70 | the GUI!
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| 71 |
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| 72 | The fonts of the GUI can be configured via D'n'D and result are best if
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| 73 | 8.Helv or 9.WarpSans is chosen.
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| 74 |
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| 75 | In case you also have smb.cmd from the smb_init package installed, smbmon
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| 76 | will allow you to start/stop/restart the Samba daemons and reload smb.conf.
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| 77 |
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| 78 | 4. Author:
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| 79 | ----------
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| 80 | Herwig Bauernfeind, 19-05-2009
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| 81 | email: herwig.bauernfeind@aon.at
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