User Commands                                         LOG2PCAP(1)



NAME
     log2pcap - Extract network traces from Samba log files

SYNOPSIS
     log2pcap [-h] [-q] [logfile] [pcapfile]

DESCRIPTION
     This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

     log2pcap reads in a samba log file and generates a pcap file
     (readable by most sniffers, such as ethereal or tcpdump)
     based on the packet dumps in the log file.

     The log file must have a log level of at least 5 to get the
     SMB header/parameters right, 10 to get the first 512 data
     bytes of the packet and 50 to get the whole packet.

OPTIONS
     -h
         If this parameter is specified the output file will be a
         hex dump, in a format that is readable by the text2pcap
         utility.

     -q
         Be quiet. No warning messages about missing or
         incomplete data will be given.

     logfile
         Samba log file. log2pcap will try to read the log from
         stdin if the log file is not specified.

     pcapfile
         Name of the output file to write the pcap (or hexdump)
         data to. If this argument is not specified, output data
         will be written to stdout.

     -h--help
         Print a summary of command line options.

EXAMPLES
     Extract all network traffic from all samba log files:

                        $ log2pcap < /var/log/* > trace.pcap


     Convert to pcap using text2pcap:

              $ log2pcap -h samba.log  text2pcap -T 139,139 - trace.pcap


VERSION




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     This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.

BUGS
     Only SMB data is extracted from the samba logs, no LDAP,
     NetBIOS lookup or other data.

     The generated TCP and IP headers don't contain a valid
     checksum.

SEE ALSO
     text2pcap(1), ethereal(1)

AUTHOR
     The original Samba software and related utilities were
     created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the
     Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the
     Linux kernel is developed.

     This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
     attributes:

     
       ATRIBUTE TYPE       ATRIBUTE VALUE   
    
     Availability         SUNWsmbar, SUNWsmbau
    
     Interface Stability  External            
    

NOTES
     Source for Samba is available on http:/opensolaris.org.

     Samba(7) delivers the set of four SMF(5) services as can be
     seen from the following example:

          $ svcs samba wins winbind swat
         STATE          STIME    FMRI
         disabled       Apr21   svc:/network/samba:default
         disabled       Apr21   svc:/network/winbind:default
         disabled       Apr21   svc:/network/wins:default
         disabled       Apr21   svc:/network/swat:default

     where the services are:

      "samba"
         runs the smbd daemon managing the CIFS sessions

      "wins"
         runs the nmbd daemon enabling the browsing (WINS)



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      "winbind"
         runs the winbindd daemon making the domain idmap

      "swat"
         Samba Web Administration Tool is a service providing
         access to browser-based Samba administration interface
         and on-line documentation.  The service runs on software
         loopback network interface on port 901/tcp, i.e. opening
         "http:/localhost:901/" in browser will access the SWAT
         service on local machine.

     Please note: SWAT uses HTP Basic Authentication scheme
     where user name and passwords are sent over the network in
     clear text. In the SWAT case the user name is root.
     Transferring such sensitive data is advisable only on the
     software loopback network interface or over secure networks.







































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