I can't really imagine syslog only is broken, otherwise other people would have complained about this already. I am using syslog-ng, and other daemon facility messages get routed to /var/log/daemon.log - but I get absolutely no samba messages - to any log except the default samba logs. lines from smb.conf: syslog only = yes syslog = 3 If I comment out these lines and use (log level = 3), I get correct logging in the smbd and nmbd logs. Further, we have a different machine running debian etch (samba 3.0.24) with a nearly identical configuration and syslogging works fine. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!