[Samba] Re: How does the UNIX end work?

[Michal Kurowski]

Andrew Edmondson [your-copy at uk2.net] wrote:
> 
> Figured this out in the end - it was a combination of 2 things. One, I had
> the files on one server and [nfs] mounted to the box running samba which
> then served the files out to the windows network. This introduced a delay
> of about 20 seconds so I had to move some data to the server running
> samba. 

I'd recommend against serving files taken from NFS anyway.

> The second thing was the  'change notify timeout'  needed to be
> changed from its default 60 seconds.  

Interesting. To what value you changed it ? 

> Works great now, cheers for the input Michal.

That's great it's sorted out.

-- 
Michal Kurowski
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