[Samba] non-windows behavior of samba

[Darwin, Samuel]

We have a vendor who is going to install an application server, and it
requires samba to behave as much like windows as possible.  There is a
particular case they are complaining about.   


1.  Run samba on redhat server 
2.  Map a drive from windows.  Let's say the Z: drive 
3.  Run a script to open and continuously modify a file on the samba
share 
4.  Observe the samba share in Windows Explorer 
 
You will see that the file size does not get updated until you hit
"refresh".     
In a pure windows, environment, the filesize will be modified every few
seconds.    So, samba is apparently not alerting the windows client that
the filesize has changed.  Is this a configurable setting?  Can this be
fixed? 
 
Here is an example perl script to run on the client side:

 

open FILE, ">",  "Z:/test.txt";

 

while (1) {

        print FILE
"jkasdklfjaskldfjaskl;dfjakl;sdfgjaklfghjkadfghajklsasdfjklasjdflkasjdfk
lajsdfklajsdfl";

       print FILE
"jkasdklfjaskldfjaskl;dfjakl;sdfgjaklfghjkadfghajklsasdfjklasjdflkasjdfk
lajsdfklajsdfl";

       print FILE
"jkasdklfjaskldfjaskl;dfjakl;sdfgjaklfghjkadfghajklsasdfjklasjdflkasjdfk
lajsdfklajsdfl";

            }

 

        print "sleeping\n";

        sleep 1;

        }

 

Thanks,

Sam Darwin

samueldarwin at yahoo dot com