Update: [Samba] Samba Shares not Refreshing contents

[Marcus Vinicius Ferreira]

At my lan all workdstations are WindowsXP and they suffer this problem even
after we upgraded to Samba 3.


Marcus

--- Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have the problem on some of our machines, and we are a pure workgroup
> setup.
> 
> BTW: I think this also happens with some of our Win2K servers, so this
> is not a samba unique issue.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:37:45 -0600, Omar Castañeda Acosta
> <omar at idea.com.mx> wrote:
> > Actually it looks like this problem only affects some workstations.
> > Could it be my domain policy? (I guess so 'cause only computers logged on
> to the domain exhibit this behavior)
> > Anyone ever experienced this?
> > 
> > Omar
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: samba-bounces+omar=idea.com.mx at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-bounces+omar=idea.com.mx at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Omar
> Castañeda Acosta
> > Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 3:31 PM
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: [Samba] Samba Shares not Refreshing contents
> > 
> > Hello List,
> > 
> > I've seen this question multiple times in several forums, and no answers.
> > 
> > I've just setup a couple of Linux (fedora core2)/Samba servers that are
> supposed to act as NAS (2.7 and 3.7 TB respectively), samba is working fine
> and it's perfectly integrated to the active directory and NT domain (win2003
> environment). However I've got a problem refreshing the contents of any
> folders whenever I create a new folder or rename a file. I've got to manually
> refresh the explorer windows (pressing F5) to see the changes,
> > 
> > Is there any way to make it work so explorer reloads the folder lists
> whenever they change? Basically, this is just an annoyance, 'because users
> won't use directly the samba shares. I want to upgrade our fileservers from
> win2003 to Linux/Samba later on, and then will become a big issue instead of
> just a minor annoyance.
> > 
> > As I said before I've seen this question on forums previously but couldn't
> find a decent answer. Even some Sun technician just answered to a customer
> that it was "pretty much the standard samba behavior". Is it true?
> > 
> > Thanks in Advance,
> > 
> > Omar
> > 
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