I spotted today in testing that under some situations it does seem to
update.  I wasn't able to spot exactly when it was working though,
it's definately not working most of the time.

Will let you know if I find out anything more concrete.


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Alan M Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/03/08 01:43, Ross wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure what's causing this, but I'm finding that the Solaris CIFS
>> shares don't update automatically like windows shares do.
>>
>> A couple of examples:
>>
>> If I right-click the folder and create a new file:
>> - In windows, the new file appears, is selected, and I can simply type the
>> name.  When I press enter it's renamed and appears in the window.
>> - On a solaris share, no file appears until I manually refresh.  I then
>> have to select the file manually and rename it.  However, after renaming it
>> the file still appears with the old name until I hit refresh again.  If I
>> try to delete the renamed file before hitting refresh I get an error "Cannot
>> delete file: Cannot read from source file or disk."
>>
>> Similarly, if I drag a file into a Solaris share, the file does not appear
>> until I hit F5 to refresh the window.
>>
>> This will be a particular problem if we roll this out as Windows doesn't
>> have a refresh button in its explorer windows, and our users will almost
>> certainly not understand why their new files don't appear.
>
> That sound strange.  We'll have a look at it.
>
> Alan
>
>
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