Brutal Developer

I've tested your tool and it really does work okay except for the thing i was looking for

I'm looking for a solution to monitor and log users that access a specific share. I could use Windows Auditing but that only shows the physical path that was accessed.

The problem is that I'm in the middle of a fileserver migration. On this fileserver we're going to change the shares first to DFS (Distributed File System). So for every current share, we're adding another share on the same folder. So you get:

E:\sharedmap\ -> \\servername.domain\old_share_name$ & \\servername.domain\dfs-sharename$

We want to monitor/log who or which server/application is still connecting to the old shares. So whenever a foldershare is opened we need to know how the user/app/server got to the folder via which share.

I hope i'm getting this a bit clear

In windows 2008 this is already possible via: Audit file share (technet.microsoft.com/.../dd772690(WS.10).aspx)

But the current server is a widnows 2003 machine. The audit feature doesnt support the things we want.

Maybe you can figure something out with Directory Monitor as a new feature? I bet there are more company's interested in a function like this. there is already a tool like this made by Steve Miller (ShareWatch  http://www.stevemiller.net/sharewatch/) but the problem is that this tool doesn't log the activities and we don't want to sit in front of the screen whole day long.

Regards,

Dennis de Vries

PS: if you need more information, I posted a question on Microsoft social technet networkings also:
social.technet.microsoft.com/.../76e2189b-a640-4519-bb7e-070c9c014786

Totally love it!!!

1 Issue (Only) v1.0.2.1

I have H: drive hidden in explorer (using TweakUI). Software Drive, don't use it very often. Directory Monitor does not log any changes on this drive even though it is set to monitor all changes!!

Cheers

Thanks for creating this great utility!  I ended up doing something customized with the Recent Items in my Windows 7.  I wanted a way to selectively delete shortcuts based on where they pointed so that my Recent Items would only show specific links.  Check out the details at www.donationcoder.com/.../index.php?topic=26826.0

First off, thank you so much for giving us DM! It's an awesome app and it's been running flawlessly and reliably on my home server for over a year now. I wrote a little php script that takes DM's log data and creates a neat browser start page for all family members, so everyone's always up-to-date on new files. Lately though, a UAC nag started to appear everytime DM was launched (see http://www.fpsbremen.de/stuff/uac-nag.png). This prevents DM from being launched via Windows Autostart, since the machine it's running on is started remotely by a WoL command, so no one's there to click "Yes". Had this problem with 1.0.2.3 and tried loads of things to get rid of it, went through lots of web pages trying to find out why UAC is doing this all of a sudden. I couldn't figure it out. Then 1.0.2.4 was released and, luckily, UAC wasn't an issue with the new version. A few weeks later, the nag started to appear with 1.0.2.4 as well. I don't recall doing anything to provoke this, other than changing the user password. The machine is running Windows 7 Professional x64 btw. Any ideas or suggestions regarding this issue would be greatly appreciated...

I’ve been enjoying the DM and its working wonderfully on my desktop.  However, the Command Prompt email isn’t working due to my lack of knowledge about batch files, DOS and what goes where.   Is there an example sheet of appropriate batch files that could be cut and pasted?

When should we be looking for version 2.0?  Looking forward to the poll, this bit of kit is certainly worth something to me.

I wish an Option that could specify a period of time before triggering an action.  For example:  trigger an email after 168 hours, attach the log file, sent the email, then delete the sent log and start a new one.   In effect this would create a weekly record/report of uploads over a 7 day interval preventing hourly email floods.

As Danny alluded to in his 29/06/2011 post above, it would be slick to have a script (asp, php, and asp.NET) that accesses the DM log file and opens the file list on a web page.  The websites I’ve created include a small script that displays the date and time when a user last logged on. Combining this with the DM logs could generate a neat little alert – “Since you were last here the following files were added/updated::::”  This seems like something that should be readily available but I have yet to find an example that lists the contents of a folder verses a entries in a database.

Thank you for all your work.

Hello
Wonder if you would look into supporting 'unison', its a bi-directional file synchronisation app.  It has support for triggering Unison from an external filesystem-watching utility like yours which could lead to a very good drop box like program for windows.
There is info about unison here http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
and here
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/unison-users/messages
the developer is Benjamin and I know he is keen to get this file watching utility up and running.
I would certainly buy your software with this utility.

thanks
Pads

Sorry I should have added that unison looks for a text file with the paths of the changed files, something which your app already does so hopefully it may only be a slight tweak to get them working together.  There is a python script here tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/.../9146 which is supposed to work with windows.

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This is a great utility, but the one thing that would really do it, is ability to run as a service.

I notice you anounced last year that you were working on version 2 which has the run as service caperbility, is this something you are still intending to develop?

thanks
Neil

Hi Werner
Good to see some updates!
Could the 'limit log size' option be automatic instead of throwing up an alert which you have click on ok each time?

Cheers
Pads

Hi all,
this software is  wonderfull, but, I need use for monitoring a share from SLES7 and isn't working.
I tried on SLES10 and SLES11 and is working very well.
Now I do not undestand if the problem is on the version of the SLES in use or is any parameters missing.
Someone can help me?
Br.

you are missing an important point: if "Run as a Windows service." is only available in a paid version, this should be clearly stated on the website! Every user feels cheated in front of a clever "unlock this feature" dialog if he was not informed about this before. Put a feature-matrix on your website which clearly shows differences between free and paid version and do not try to trick users - this is bad style.