Hello -
I have samba running on a linux (red hat) machine, with several shares defined
in smb.conf for my Windows machines to use.
I have an application on the linux box that I run from the Windows machines by
way of a terminal emulation program called SmarTerm. I've written a little
program that runs on the host (linux); it opens a file on the host and reads 5
records. I store the indexes of those records in a string, and send them into a
SmarTerm macro that opens the file (so here's where samba comes in) re-reads
the same five records, and builds a nice gui window in which the records can be
changed. When I exit the window, I send all the text back to the host program,
and the host app then handles writing the records back to the file.
Problem is, when I run the macro again, it doesn't seem to be really reading
the file, but relying on a cached version. In other words, I get back the 5
original records, not reflecting the changes. I can look at the file on the
host (i.e., not relying on samba) and see that the changes were in fact made.
If I stop/start samba (/etc/rc.d/init.d smb restart) and run the macro again, I
see the right records.
Can anyone provide a suggestion as to how to force samba to take a fresh look at
the file every time I open/read it from Windows?
Thanks,
Chris Hawkins
Leland Associates
chrish@harborside.com
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