I've seen very similar symptoms on a pure Windows environment. I think I found a Microsoft solution to it, but I don't remember the details. However, searching today I found KB823291 with those symptoms.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823291 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. _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list cifs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
