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Nov 28 2006

Samba/Windows problem: content of folder does not refresh

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16 Responses to “Samba/Windows problem: content of folder does not refresh”

1. # lologpon 19 Dec 2006 at 10:05 am

   ca ne fonctionne pas….

2. # pjon 19 Dec 2006 at 10:50 am

   Lologp: can you elaborate?

   It did work for me, as confirmed by the samba team .. you can try asking them on the samba IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net

   Regards,

   Pitr

3. # guwapoon 30 Dec 2006 at 6:22 am

   for what version is this?

   using 3.0.14a-Debian, this option doesn’t exist and therfor don’t do anything

4. # pjon 30 Dec 2006 at 12:59 pm

   This was on version “samba 3.0.22-1ubuntu4″

5. # guwapoon 02 Jan 2007 at 9:37 am

   ok. just skimed over the changelogs/docs but didn’t find anything in that direction. gonna try my luck in the irc channel then. thanks.

   btw: this is apparently a windows issue. you can “solve” this by adding net paths (like \\theserver\folderA) as a net disk ( –> y:\). This issue additionally comes when leaving the explorer to long open.

6. # pjon 02 Jan 2007 at 1:34 pm

   I will post my samba config in a new post, hang on.

7. # lpaulicaon 15 Mar 2007 at 6:54 pm

   I think that the problem is related with the fact that the name of the share is the same as the path to the system directory.For example:

   Share with the refresh problem (require F5 on new folders):

   [Test]
   path = /samba/Test
   read only = no
   create mask = 0600
   directory mask = 0700

   Share without the refresh problem:

   [Test-Share]
   path = /samba/Test
   read only = no
   create mask = 0600
   directory mask = 0700

   Am I right?

8. # lpaulicaon 15 Mar 2007 at 7:04 pm

   I think that the problem is related with the fact that the name of the samba share has the same name as the path on the system. For example:

   This share require refresh (F5):

   [Test]
   path = /samba/Test
   read only = no
   create mask = 0600
   directory mask = 0700

   This share doesn’t require refresh:

   [Test-Share]
   path = /samba/Test
   read only = no
   create mask = 0600
   directory mask = 0700

   Am I right?

9. # The Aetherealon 04 Nov 2007 at 5:36 pm

   I just ran in to the same problem, and yes lpaulica, you are correct. I had a share named “files” and a directory names files. I change the share name to “fileshare” and it now works correctly. Thank you.

10. # ddtechon 26 Feb 2008 at 1:06 am

    I just confirmed this on CentOS 4.4 Samba ver 3.0.10-1.4E.9

    If my Share name is the same as the name of the folder that is shared, I have to press F5 to see any changes. If the Share name and folder name are different it works fine.

11. # Johanon 01 Sep 2008 at 1:43 pm

    I think its a webmin problem do you create your shares in Webmin?

12. # Johanon 01 Sep 2008 at 1:50 pm

    lpaulica is correct

13. # roderickon 20 Dec 2008 at 8:43 pm

    Didn’t solve it for me..

14. # roderickon 20 Dec 2008 at 8:43 pm

    by the way, using freenas. when i use samba from my fedora6 i got no issues.

15. # vascoon 02 Feb 2009 at 8:15 am

    my experience with ubuntu 8.04-2

    to get the update without having to manually refresh, it has to be like this

    [Test]
    path = /samba/Test/

    notice the trailing slash!

16. # vascoon 06 Feb 2009 at 11:36 pm

    update to my post above:

    I have computer1 with 2 samba shares (automatic refresh working just fine)
    \\computer1\www\mysite\
    \\computer1\home\john\

    I was setting up a new samba server (with same share names as above), on another system, computer2

    \\computer2\www\mysite\ (not automatically refreshing)
    \\computer2\home\john\ (not automatically refreshing)

    After rebooting the client XP machine, the automatic refresh is working.
    Its *prolly* an xp thang. refresh is working fine with all shares now.

    *shrug*
    maybe this helps

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