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File and Folder Access Logging w/o Windows Auditing

I would like to know if there's some kind of software out there that logs file and folder read/write/changes and also gives me the NT user, time, and day of the change. As I said in the title, i do not want to use NT auditing. I want to log a folder on a NAS fileserver (with a dumbed down version of 2000 it seems) on a NT4 domain. Thanks for any help!

Rich Rumble

That's a tough one... if the folders and files resided on an FTP share you'd use the ftp log's but if it's an NT share then there are a few other 3rd party applications that can be installed to do this, the one that sprung to mind for me was NetAware http://www.infiltration-systems.com/netaware.shtml
Monitor Magic is another http://www.tools4ever.com/products/monitormagic/features/network-monitoring/connectivity-monitoring/
-rich

gidds99

I dont know if this would work in your situation but you can try it for free:

http://www.gfi.com/lanselm/lanselmfeatures.htm

Hope this helps.

jingaling

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Thanks for the replies. rich: netaware looks good but it does not log file creation and change which we need. It just logs opens and closes (at least on my comptuer). Monitor Magic doesn't seem to do this either. gidds: i've used GFI SELM and it is my backup choice because it runs on top of NT auditing. Thanks for the suggestions though...keep em coming :)

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Paul Howard

You could also take a look at File Audit its pretty basic but functional.

http://www.softwareshelf.co.uk/files/products.asp?type=cat&ID=10

Paul

Rich Rumble

I think my comments and links provide viable alternitives and a solution to the asker.
-rich