[Samba] Question regarding FreeBSD and Samba

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:45:17AM +0200, Hristo Karatonev wrote:
> Hello to everyone!
> I'm new here, pls don't be cruel with me :)
> My question is about refreshing explorer after creating (with a right  
> click ->"New Folder" action) on Samba share.
> My configuration is:
> FreeBSD 7.2
> Samba 3.0.36
> Samba shares is on Raid 1 (hardware)(if this may be a reason for something).
>
> In smb.conf i have:
>
> [share]
>        writeable = yes
>        path = /home/share
>        force directory mode = 770
>        force group = share
>        force create mode = 770
>        comment = share
>        valid users = @share
>        create mode = 770
>        directory mode = 770
>
> I cannot understand why sometimes when a user try to create New Folder  
> directly on share through Explorer browser (from windows machine), the  
> browser doesn't refresh directories and this lead to subsequent errors  
> related to actions about renaming created "New Folder"-s. Every time  
> user have to refresh to see what is going on...
> Thanks in advance!

We've done many fixes to the changenotify code since 3.0.36,
I'd recommend upgrading.

Jeremy.