samba - Feb 2010 - Using the 'WatchSubDirectories' setting in a .NET FileSystemWatcher with a Samba Share

Hi all,

I've just managed to upgrade to Samba 3.3 and am pretty ecstatic about 
finding i can now use FileSystemWatcher to watch for file changes in a 
directory. On a Windows system however, when I say 'watch $dir' with 
watchsubdirectories == true and $dir/a/file.jpg is changed, I get a 
filechanged notification - on Samba 3.3 this doesn't happen - does 
anyone know if it's a bug that was fixed, or something that's not being 
approached?

I do get notifications for files in $dir with the above example. Is 
there anyway I can watch for changes in $dir/a/ $dir/b/ etc with my .NET 
program?

References for these filesystem-level onchange events:

http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2006-February/117361.html - Back in 
2006 was when the first support for these events was implemented, i'm 
really wondering whether anyone knows if it's come any further than this 
- or whether it's a bug that's looking to be fixed, or whether it's 
simply never going to make it into Samba?

Thanks in advance, first post to the list - whoop!

Henri

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:14:00PM +0000, Henri Cook
wrote:
> I've just managed to upgrade to Samba 3.3 and am pretty ecstatic about
> finding i can now use FileSystemWatcher to watch for file changes in a  
> directory. On a Windows system however, when I say 'watch $dir'
with
> watchsubdirectories == true and $dir/a/file.jpg is changed, I get a  
> filechanged notification - on Samba 3.3 this doesn't happen - does  
> anyone know if it's a bug that was fixed, or something that's not
being
> approached?
>
> I do get notifications for files in $dir with the above example. Is  
> there anyway I can watch for changes in $dir/a/ $dir/b/ etc with my .NET  
> program?
>
> References for these filesystem-level onchange events:
>
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2006-February/117361.html - Back in  
> 2006 was when the first support for these events was implemented, i'm  
> really wondering whether anyone knows if it's come any further than
this
> - or whether it's a bug that's looking to be fixed, or whether
it's
> simply never going to make it into Samba?
In theory, it should work even recursively against Samba.
Can you do a network trace of your application and upload it
somewhere for download? It would be great if you could do
comparative traces of your app against Windows and against
Samba.

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Capture_Packets

Thanks,

Volker
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