Record all files accessed via windows file sharing

**xera** · Oct 14th, 2009, 09:38 AM

How can I record/log all files accessed via windows file sharing?

I know about openfiles.exe, but I don't wanna have to execute that every 5 seconds.

Also, but not as important, I would like to know if the whole file was read (aka copied), or just a bit of it was read (viewed)

Any ideas?

**chris128** · Oct 14th, 2009, 05:22 PM

You can turn on Security Auditing in Windows and then there will be an entry in the Security event log for each time anyone tries to access a file on that computer. The only problem with this is that the information is quite verbose and you get an awful lot of event log entries. I guess the best method depends exactly what you want it for and in what situation you would need to refer to this log as well as how far back the information needs to go.

**xera** · Oct 15th, 2009, 02:43 AM

hI thanks!

Is there any way that I can do that programmatically, using C# for example?

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