Share monitoring software.

[Jocsta]

Does anyone know of any software that will run on a win2k box and log accesses (reads and executes) to shared directories? I have a large collection of useful articles and utilities, mostly freeware, but some are shareware - that I make available from my machine. I just want to log who has read,copied or run any of them, partly (mainly) because I am nosy, and partly because of licensing conditions on some of the shareware.
At the moment I keep a server manager (taken from a NT4 box) open all the time, and when I see the network icon flickering - check to see who's looking where, but am after something more reliable...
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[RedTech]

If you're using NTFS, uou could enable auditing on that
directory.

1. Start Explorer
2. Right click on the file/directory you want to audit, and from the context menu select properties
3. Select the Security tab, Advanced, and click Auditing
4. If you have selected a directory, check the &quot;replace auditing on subdirectories&quot;
5. Click the Add button and add the user(s) who you wish to audit by selecting and clicking Add. When finished adding users, click OK
6. Select the events you wish to audit and then click OK

You must ensure that File access auditing is enabled (Start - Programs - Administrative Tools - User Manager - Policies - Audit).

These events can then be viewed using the Event Viewer (Start - Programs - Administrative Tools - Event Viewer - Log - Security)

 

[Jocsta]

Nice idea, and thanks for the reply - but Unfortunately it's a fat32 drive. It's an external USB2 drive that doubles as my &quot;go anywhere - fix anything&quot; drive, so I need to keep it fat32 to be able to access it from any windows os...