of the current server process %a = the architecture of the remote machine. Only some are recognised, and those may not be 100% reliable. It currently recognises Samba, WfWg, WinNT and Win95. Anything else will be known as "UNKNOWN". If it gets it wrong then sending me a level 3 log should allow me to fix it. %I = The IP address of the client machine %T = the current date and time There are some quite creative things that can be done with these substitutions and other smb.conf options. .SS NAME MANGLING Samba supports "name mangling" so that Dos and Windows clients can use files that don't conform to the 8.3 format. It can also be set to adjust the case of 8.3 format filenames. There are several options that control the way mangling is performed, and they are grouped here rather than listed separately.