Comments on: Samba/Windows problem: content of folder does not refresh

By: vasco

vasco — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:36:33 +0000

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

By: vasco

vasco — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:15:02 +0000

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!

By: roderick

roderick — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:43:46 +0000

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

By: roderick

roderick — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:43:05 +0000

Didn’t solve it for me..

By: Johan

Johan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:50:18 +0000

lpaulica is correct

By: Johan

Johan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:43:02 +0000

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

By: ddtech

ddtech — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:06:17 +0000

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.

By: The Aethereal

The Aethereal — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:36:41 +0000

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.

By: lpaulica

lpaulica — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:04:20 +0000

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?

By: lpaulica

lpaulica — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:54:01 +0000

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?