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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Monitoring windows logs Post 302834967 by bakunin on Sunday 21st of July 2013 03:44:42 AM
Old 07-21-2013
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Originally Posted by SkySmart
is it possible to monitor log files that are on a windows server, from a linux/unix host?

i'm thinking that the directory that the files are located in on windows can be be mounted on the linux host, and then a script or tool can just monitor the log as though it were local?
That will work perfectly. Windows and Unix use different protocol stacks, so you need some software. In the TCP/IP-world there is NFS, which is used to mount remote (parts of) filesystems locally. The respective protocol in NetBIOS (the protocol stack Windows uses) is called SMB.

Either use a NFS server daemon for Windows to export the part with the log files and then NFS-mount it on the Unix system or install a SMB-client on the Unix system to mount the (SMB-)shared Windows drive. Example products for the former would be FreeNFS, an example for the latter would be SAMBA. I am sure there are other similar products for both options too.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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SHOWMOUNT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					      SHOWMOUNT(8)

NAME
showmount -- show remote NFS mounts on host SYNOPSIS
showmount [-Ae36] [-a | -d] [host] DESCRIPTION
showmount shows status information about the NFS server on host. By default it prints the names of all hosts that have NFS file systems mounted on the host. See NFS: Network File System Protocol Specification, RFC 1094, Appendix A, and NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification, Appendix I, for a detailed description of the protocol. -A Search for NFS servers advertised via Bonjour. -a List all mount points in the form: host:dirpath -d List directory paths of mount points instead of hosts. -e Show the host's exports list. -3 Use mount protocol Version 3, compatible with NFS Version 3. -6 Use only IPv6 addresses to contact servers. SEE ALSO
mount(1), mountd(8), nfsd(8), mDNSResponder(8) BUGS
The mount daemon running on the server only has an idea of the actual mounts, since the NFS server is stateless. showmount will only display the information as accurately as the mount daemon reports it. HISTORY
The showmount utility first appeared in 4.4BSD. 4th Berkeley Distribution September 26, 2010 4th Berkeley Distribution
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