I want to track filesystem operations done in a Linux directory which is shared with a Windows Server box via Samba. I have enabled auditing with the following settings in /etc/samba/smb.conf: [shareddir] (...) vfs objects = full_audit # audit settings full_audit:success = chmod open mkdir rmdir rename create_file fchmod fchown linkat unlinkat full_audit:prefix = %u|%I|%m|%S full_audit:failure = none full_audit:facility = local5 full_audit:priority = notice recycle:repository = /home/recycle/ recycle:keeptree = yes recycle:versions = yes I also create a rsyslog rule to output the logged events to a log file and that works fine. However, several events which I have not defined in full_audit:success and full_audit:failure are logged. Example: Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|connect|ok|sasdata Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|realpath|ok|/sasdata Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|realpath|ok|/sasdata Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|stat|ok|/sasdata Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|statvfs|ok| Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|stat|ok|/sasdata Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|fs_capabilities|ok| Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|chdir|ok|chdir|/sasdata Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|stat|ok|/sasdata Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|file_id_create|ok|804:603decc:0 Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|getwd|ok|/sasdata Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|file_id_create|ok|804:603decc:0 Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|stat|ok|/sasdata Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|realpath|ok|. Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|connectpath|ok|. Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|file_id_create|ok|804:603decc:0 Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|file_id_create|ok|804:603decc:0 Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|stat|ok|/sasdata Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|sys_acl_get_file|ok|. Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|sys_acl_get_file|ok|. Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|get_nt_acl|ok|/sasdata Feb 16 04:40:49 AXLAB01 smbd_audit: aevangelista|172.28.11.12|172.28.11.12|sasdata|connectpath|ok|. Is that expected? Am I missing some configuration? Thanks in advance!