hi, im a newbie to samba and maybe someone could help me with my problem. could anyone tell me how the logfile is constructed and what does the information tell me? i tried it with different log level from 1 to 5 but i doesnt understand all which stands in the logfile. maybe someone got some pages with more information about the logfile. here one example: [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(387) unix_clean_name [/sv91002] [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(387) unix_clean_name [sv91002] [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] smbd/trans2.c:call_trans2qfilepathinfo(1732) call_trans2qfilepathinfo sv91002 level=257 call=5 total_data=0 [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(878) Transaction 32 of length 91 [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(685) switch message SMBtrans2 (pid 1282) [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] smbd/trans2.c:call_trans2qfilepathinfo(1700) call_trans2qfilepathinfo: TRANSACT2_QPATHINFO: level = 257 [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(387) unix_clean_name [/sv91002.sql] [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(387) unix_clean_name [sv91002.sql] [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] smbd/trans2.c:call_trans2qfilepathinfo(1732) call_trans2qfilepathinfo sv91002.sql level=257 call=5 total_data=0 [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(878) Transaction 33 of length 41 [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(685) switch message SMBfindclose (pid 1282) [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] smbd/trans2.c:reply_findclose(3135) reply_findclose, dptr_num = 256 [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] smbd/trans2.c:reply_findclose(3141) SMBfindclose dptr_num = -3 [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(878) Transaction 34 of length 46 [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(685) switch message SMBclose (pid 1282) [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] smbd/reply.c:reply_close(3151) close directory fnum=7629 [2003/05/19 11:00:09, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(878) Transaction 35 of length 89 what does this logfile part tell me? thxxx for help. best regards, denis heitbrock