How to tell when another computer connects

How can you determine if another computer on your network or the internet connects to your Mac? The appfirewall.log will log any attempt to connect, but does not tell if the connection was successful or not. For instance - "Allow smbd connecting from 10.0.1.4:49999 to port 139 proto=6" is reported in the log whether the connection attempt succeeded or failed.
Is there no way to determine when a remote share connects to your Mac for file sharing?
Message was edited by: Larry Gage

If by "connects" you mean AFP filesharing, I have not heard of a notification for that. You can run this command in Terminal, which reports all AFP users connected:
netstat -na | grep 548
You can wrap the command in an Applescript for more convenience, then run it from the Applescript menu:
tell application "Terminal"
if not (exists window 1) then do script ""
do script "netstat -na | grep 548" in front window
end tell

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