Here's something that Paul Blackman sent me that may be useful: ------------------- I created this script to do a few things that smbstatus doesn't at the moment. Perhaps you might want to include these. Sorry I haven't added things at source level, script was quick&easy. ******* #!/bin/csh if ($1 == "-p") then smbstatus -p |sort -u else if ($1 == "-c") then echo There are `smbstatus -p |sort -u |grep -n -v z |grep -c :` unique smbd processes running. else if ($1 == "-l") then echo `date '+ %d/%m/%y %H:%M:%S'` `smbstatus -p |sort -u |grep -n -v z |grep -c :` >>$2 else if ($1 == "-cs") then echo There are `smbstatus |awk '$1==share {n++;} END {print n}' share=$2` concurrent connections to share: $2 else if ($1 == "-csl") then echo `date '+ %d/%m/%y %H:%M:%S'` `smbstatus |awk '$1==share {n++;} END {print n}' share=$2` >>$3 else echo "'smbstat -c' ==> Count unique smbd processes." echo "'smbstat -p' ==> List unique smbd processes." echo "'smbstat -l logfile' ==> Append a log entry for the number of" echo " concurrent and unique processes to logfile." echo "'smbstat -cs sharename'" echo " ==> Count processes connected to sharename (assumed unique)" echo "'smbstat -csl sharename logfile'" echo " ==> Append a log entry for the number of concurrent" echo " processes connected to sharename (assumed unique)" endif ****** Run this script from cron eg. 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,50,55 * * * * /usr/local/samba/bin/smbstat -l /usr/local/samba/var/smbdcount.log and you get a good idea of usage over time. Cheers, ~^ MIME OK ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ o | Paul Blackman ictinus@lake.canberra.edu.au o | Co-operative Research ------------------------ o _ | Centre For Freshwater Ecology. Ph. (Aus) 06 2012518 -- (") o | University of Canberra, Australia. Fax. " 06 2015038 \_|_-- |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "Spend a little love and get high" _/ \_ | - Lenny Kravitz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SAMBA Web Pages: http://samba.org/samba/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~