Paul Dixon
2006-Nov-13 11:13 UTC
[Samba] Reducing spurious change notifications on a mounted Win XP share
Overview =====Linux box with Win XP Pro share mounted onto it appears to send spurious change notifications when the Windows box modifies a file on the share. Detail ====I have an up-to-date Linux server (Ubuntu 6.06LTS) running Samba 3.0.22 This server has a share from an XP Professional desktop mounted onto it. The relevant fstab entry looks like this //DEATHSTAR/workspace /home/paul/workspace smbfs uid=paul,gid=paul,fmask=777,dmask=777,credentials=/home/paul/deathstar.smb,rw 0 0 The share is my Eclipse workspace for web development- editing and version control is much zippier on a local hard drive than over the network, and the samba share means the Linux box can see it for testing with Apache etc There's just one problem - more often than not, when I try to save a file on the Windows desktop in the shared area I get a "File has been changed on the file system do you want to overwrite the changes" or similar dialog. Similarly, if I switch focus after saving a file and come back to the editor, I'll get a "file has changed, do you want to reload" To be clear, these are files on my local Windows disk, and things work fine if I don't mount the workspace on the server. It seems the server sends change notification messages that it shouldn't be doing. Any clues as to how I could correct this or what the cause might be?