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From: Darwin, Samuel on 6 May 2010 11:30
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







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