samba - Nov 2001 - (no subject)

Morning,

    I am sitting with a slight problem at the moment my situation is :

    I have a machine running Linux( Mandrake ) with Samba on and another with
Win '98.

    I have a shared drive on my Win '98 machine. The Linux machine can see
the shared drive and can write files to it.
    But what happens is that I create a file on my Linux machine and then I
rename it to another filename on the shared drive of the Win '98 machine, 
but there is a 2.5         second delay before my Win '98 machine sees the
rename of the filename.

    I would just like to know whether you have encountered this problem before,
and how I might fix the delay in the rename.

    Because when I run Linux( Redhat ) instead of Mandrake then the rename is
instantaneous.

    Linux( Mandrake )
            File1.tmp ---> rename ( \\ Win '98\ Shared Drive\ File1.txt )
( Win '98 Machine picks up rename )
                                                                    |           
|
                                                                    ------->
( Samba Server ) -- ( 2.5 second delay ) ------------->

    Linux( Redhat )
            File1.tmp ---> rename ( \\ Win '98\ Shared Drive\ File1.txt )
( Win '98 Machine picks up rename )
                                                                    |           
|
                                                                    ------->
( Samba Server ) -- ( No Delay ) ------------------------>

Kind Regards
Renier Minne
( Developer )
Nomad Information Systems
082 940 7179
(011) 484-4740

renier@bbd.co.za
renier@nomadeft.com
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On Friday 02 November 2001 01:31, Renier wrote:
> Morning,
>
>     I am sitting with a slight problem at the moment my situation is :
>
>     I have a machine running Linux( Mandrake ) with Samba on and another
> with Win '98.
>
>     I have a shared drive on my Win '98 machine. The Linux machine can
see
> the shared drive and can write files to it. But what happens is that I
> create a file on my Linux machine and then I rename it to another filename
> on the shared drive of the Win '98 machine,  but there is a 2.5        
> second delay before my Win '98 machine sees the rename of the filename.
>
>     I would just like to know whether you have encountered this problem
> before, and how I might fix the delay in the rename.
Are you looking at the file in Windows explorer? Have you hit F5 to update
explorer's
view of the files? Explorer doesn't continually poll the filesystem to watch
for changes.
It's typical for explorer to only check the file for changes every few
seconds. If hitting
F5 does not instantly show the filename change, then this is a different problem
than
what I'm describing. Otherwise, you just need to hit F5 if you want to see
changes
immediately.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technology technical services
http://www.potentialtech.com