[Samba] IIS Change Notifications

[Gareth Evans]

Hello Volker,

Thanks for your quick responses so far;

I've captured the following:
Log & Capture from kernel notify off, 3.5.6; (hires timestamp, normal
daemon, log level 10)
Log & Capture from kernel notify on, 3.5.6, (hires timestamp, normal daemon,
log level 10)
Wireshark Capture from using windows 7 machine as fileshare (no log since
you can't get one from windows)

All captures&logs were from IIS7 as the SMB client, but there's probably a
few standard windows refreshes and the like there, since I was starting and
stopping the samba server, I had to refresh the explorer windows a few times
to ensure the smbd had started before testing IIS;

If you would like traces from just standalone ReadDirectoryChangesW; let me
know - though it's almost 11:30pm so i'll be away for a few hours soon.

You can download the traces zipped here; 60mb (not sure why the wireshark
traces were so large, but i captured them with the tshark command from the
link you provided)

http://agrath.mole.feralhosting.com/traces.zip

The changes (to fire the notifications) were "triggered" by copying
red/green/blue dlls into the test/bin folder, which should cause IIS to
reload the appdomain
using a cp command on a ssh session and for the windows server, I used a
command prompt copy command (to eliminate the GUI messing it up by doing
something strange like forcing the notification to get fired or similar)

Gareth

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Volker Lendecke
<Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 08:31:11PM +1300, Gareth Evans wrote:
> > Since I posted the above, i've done more testing and research.
>
> Can you get us the raw network traces when running against
> Samba 3.5.6 (there was a significant bug fixed in that
> release, 7662) and against Windows, where it is working?
> Also, can you get us the full corresponding debug level 10
> log? If your changes all come from CIFS clients, can you try
> Samba with "kernel change notify = false" to get the kernel
> inotify out of the picture as a potential problem?
>
> Information on how to create network traces can be found
> under http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Capture_Packets, for
> Windows you can certainly also use wireshark.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Volker Lendecke
>
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