win 2000

[Jeremy Allison]

Jean Francois Micouleau wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 
> > Jeremy Allison wrote:
> >
> > > I just tested this - rename does work fine with Samba and
> > > Win2k - the issue is that the explorer shell in w2k is
> > > lazy when the server supports changenotify calls
> >
> >       Should I assume that not supporting change notify
> >       speeds this up?  If so, can it be turned off
> >       without turning off any other usefull features?
> 
> Dave, IMO the correct solution is to have an underlying OS able to send
> change notify to samba and in turn samba propagate c.n. to the client.
> 
> If you keep change notify turned on, you just get a 30 seconds of "on
> screen" refresh delay.

A "quick hack" I may add to 2.2.0 to improve the user 
response for the >99% of OS's that don't have this feature :-)
is to reshedule a changenotify scan on a rename call :-).

Jeremy.

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