On 12/03/08 10:42, Alan M Wright 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.

Ross,

Our FVT team just tried that out and reported that it works as expected.

Alan
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