Why do my samba shares (using ZFS) not immediately refresh when I make a change to them via CIFS?

John Klimek jklimek at gmail.com
Sat Dec 22 07:02:07 PST 2007


It shouldn't be client side because the non-ZFS samba shares
automatically refresh just fine...

On Dec 22, 2007 1:59 AM, XP 2600 <xp2600 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you sure its not a client side problem ? cause i remember a Registry
> tweak which change the behavior of Windows XP from auto refresh to not.
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> On Dec 22, 2007 8:49 AM, John Klimek < jklimek at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a simple ZFS pool and am sharing it via samba to my Windows XP
> machine.
> >
> > Using my Windows XP machine, I browse to the samba/zfs share and
> > create a directory but it doesn't show up unless I hit F5 to refresh.
> >
> > However, my other samba shares (not using ZFS) immediately show all
> changes.
> >
> > Has anybody experienced this problem?  It's kind-of annoying and is
> > fairly dangerous because you can delete directories (or files) and
> > they will still appear to be there unless you refresh the directory...
> >
> > Thanks for any help...
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