[Samba] IIS Change Notifications

[Gareth Evans]

Hi There

Good point, sorry - windows7 -> windows7 will definitely negotiate SMB2; and
it's possible the change notifications work differently there.

I have tested this problem using an XP and 2003 machine as the host machine
(which would be SMB1) previously, but those weren't available last night
when I captured the trace. I could capture a wireshark trace today using XP
as the source if you need.

I have put a copy of the application I used for testing up here:
http://agrath.mole.feralhosting.com/ChangeNotifyTesting.zip
Source code is included (so you can see how it works), but also a compiled
binary in this path:
ChangeNotifyTestingConsole\ChangeNotifyTestingConsole\bin\Debug
It's a very slightly modified copy of the FileSystemWatcher sample
application that you can get from MSDN (I added the recursive flag)

You'll also see the Red/Green/Blue/Test websites I'm referring to.
These are in ChangeNotifyTesting/[red|green|blue|test]"
If you wanted to test with those, with an IIS site pointing to the /Test
folder, you'd then copy Red/Bin/* to Test/Bin/ (or Green, Blue)
If you point IIS at a UNC path that isn't local, you'll have to tell ASP.Net
to trust the path using Caspol which is in the .net framework folder in
windows\microsoft .net\framework\v4.?????\
Example here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnfa/archive/2004/12/30/344554.aspx
You don't need to do this for the .net application that just listens for and
logs change notification messages.

To run that program, there's two arguments; a path, which shouldn't contain
spaces and optionally -r

e.g. "ChangeNotifyTestingConsole.exe \\smbtest\mwh-webstore\sites\ -r"

The log files should show inotify stuff in there (just checked
kernelnotifyon.log) - that is, the notification was registered and the
change detected; but this never reaches the listening application (at least
not on a copy/move/modify (edit contents) operation)

Hopefully it's just the windows-as-source capture that isn't useful here.

Gareth

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Volker Lendecke
<Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 11:22:09PM +1300, Gareth Evans wrote:
> > 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;
>
> Unfortunately the network traces only contain SMB2 traffic.
> I can understand that against Windows as a server, but even
> that only contains READ commands, no notify at all.
>
> In the log files I indeed do not see any notification being
> sent from the server, that's right also.
>
> Maybe it's best if you sent us the small executable that
> shows the problem. Please send exact instructions how to
> reproduce. And, I don't have Visual Studio handily
> available, so something executable on a standard W2k8 or
> Win7 (or XP) would be very helpful.
>
> With best regards,
>
> Volker Lendecke
>
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