[Fwd: smbmount problems]

[Sudheer Tumuluru]

BTW, I am using samba-client-2.0.7-4 and Redhat Linux 6.1 (linux
2.2.12-20).

-Sudheer

Sudheer Tumuluru wrote:

> Hi,
>         I have an NT machine running an application which refreshes a
> text file every minute or so with fresh data. The directory containing
> this file is shared so that I can do an smbmount. I have a linux machine
> which runs a program to interpret this file. When the program starts up,
> it does smbmount of the remote directory. I am able to see the file but
> there is a very visible propagation delay. I mount the same directory on
> another NT machine and I see that the file change almost instantaneously
> while the linux machine seems to take upto 2 seconds longer to refresh
> the contents of the file. The application is very time sensitive and
> needs to synchronize this file change event with other events coming
> through the audio input. I set up TCP_NODELAY in smb.conf but that did
> not help. Also tried setting fmask=2755 in the smbmount options (as per
> smbfs.txt file). Don't know what else to do to eliminate the additional
> delay. Any pointers??
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sudheer