[linux-cifs-client] cifs directory disconnected - timeout? idle? notify?

[RWong at corpone.org]

Dear gurus,

I have a Linux cifs mount to a Windows 2003 machine.

On the Linux machine, I also have a JAVA program that looks through all
directories on the mounted directory.
However, the JAVA program wouldn't list any new directory I created on the
Windows 2003 machine UNTIL after I do a 'ls' command on the newly created
directory on Linux. Apparently the 'ls' trigger some notification to cifs
and it refreshes the mount point.

Is there something I need to do on the Windows side? Can I config cifs to
never timeout?

I googled for 6 hours still no idea. Any brilliant idea?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Royce
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Here are some info. I gathered:

[root at ohcolx06 cifs]# uname -a
Linux ohcolx06.corpone.org 2.6.9-34.EL #1 Fri Feb 24 16:44:51 EST 2006 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[root at ohcolx06 cifs]# mount -V
mount: mount-2.12a

[root at ohcolx06 etc]# vi /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData
Display Internal CIFS Data Structures for Debugging

CIFS Version 1.34
Servers:
1) Name: 192.168.10.171  Domain: XXXX Mounts: 1 ServerOS: Windows Server
2003 3790 Service Pack 1
        ServerNOS: Windows Server 2003 5.2      Capabilities: 0x1f3fd
        SMB session status: 1   TCP status: 1
        Local Users To Server: 1 SecMode: 0x3 Req Active: 0
MIDs:

2) Name: 192.168.10.72  Domain: XXXX Mounts: 8 ServerOS: Windows 5.0
        ServerNOS: Windows 2000 LAN Manager     Capabilities: 0xf3fd
        SMB session status: 1   TCP status: 1
        Local Users To Server: 1 SecMode: 0x3 Req Active: 0
MIDs:

Shares:
1) \\ohcont56b\Xchange60b Uses: 1 Type: NTFS Characteristics: 0x20
Attributes: 0x700ff
PathComponentMax: 255 Status: 1 type: DISK


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