Ross,

What Windows OS are you using?
Have you tried different Windows systems to see if the problem still
occurs?

Afshin

Alan M Wright wrote:
> 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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