RE: Looking for the softwares to monitor our file server

["Demi" <hang10z () comcast net>]

You can enable auditing on any folder in windows 2003.  Just right click on
the folder, go to "sharing and security", then "security" tab, at the bottom
click on "advanced".  Select the auditing tab, click add, select the group
or users to track, then pick what actions will be you want to track.  IN
your case I would select 

Create files/Write data                 Success/Fail
Create folders / append data            Success/Fail
Delete Subfolders/Files                 Success/Fail
Delete                                  Suceess/Fail



This will log all the info you need in the security event log.  It may be a
little hard to read at first but I've never needed a 3rd party tool to
monitor my file servers.  



-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On
Behalf Of Truong duc Luong
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 2:47 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Looking for the softwares to monitor our file server

Hi all,
I'm a network manager at smal-size company. We've one file server using
Windows 2003 server. I'm only using Event Viewer to log all operation with
the file server. Recently, some important data in the file server have been
deleted.  So, I can't detect when does this operation occurs? And Who do
this?
To improve the logging capability, i googled and found this software:
Alfa File Monitor (http://www.alfasp.com/products.html). It meets with our
requirement, but very expensive (1.999 EUR).
Do you know any software like Alfa File Monitor (with less price) ?
The software can answer quetions:
- Who does delete, modify the file server?
- When does this occurs?

Many thanks,
--
No Pain No Gain

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