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Require software which can moniter the file server

Dear Sir,

Can u pls advise me how to moniter the user's using share folder on the SBS2000.
sir, i will very thankfull if sumbody suggest me thired part software which can moniter each user activities on the sharefolder.For eg. when did he log on the server. how many times he used the sharedfolder. which file he open from the sharefolder. which file he has save on his Desktop from the sharefolder, which file from the sharefoler he has taken the print.

can u pls suggest me the softerware which can keep moniter of network user activties on the sharefolder on the SBS2000.
Looking for the great soltion

Thanks
Affaque

Pete Long

Affaque

why not simply turn on auditing? then audit file/folder access - logon events etc? this funtionality is allready built into windows you just need to turn it on.

Small Business Server 2000 Getting Started Guide
Chapter 9 - System Security -auditing and monotoring
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2000/plan/guide/sbspni5i.mspx#E6HAC

Auditing and Monitoring
Auditing and monitoring are important steps that help you discover security breaches. Monitoring is the active watching of a system. Auditing follows the trail left by various logs to find out who has been accessing the system and what they have been doing.

You can use different tools that are included with Windows 2000 Server and Small Business Server 2000 to audit and monitor the network, both to see what your own users are doing and what people accessing your Web site are doing.

Watching the Outside World
It is always a good idea to keep track of who is accessing your Web site and their activities while they are there. You can audit traffic on your Web site by using IIS, which ships as part of Windows 2000 Server and Small Business Server 2000. Administrators can use security-auditing techniques to monitor a broad range of user and Web server security activity. Auditing consists of creating auditing policies for directory and file access or server events and monitoring the Security Logs to detect any access attempts by unauthorized persons.

Watching the Inside World

You sometimes have to watch what your users are doing to ensure that they are not installing software they are not supposed to use, accessing files to which they should not have access, or otherwise violating security privileges. By using Windows 2000 Server Event Logs, you can audit any of the following activities or settings:

• Account logon events

• Account management

• Directory service access

• Logon events

• Object access

• Policy change

• Privilege use

• Process tracking

• System events

affaque123

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will it effect the performance of the server. because of log files

affaque123

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pls guide me how to enable Auot log for internal user who are accessing sharefolders

Thanks
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