samba - Mar 2012 - Receiving async directory change notifications from a Windows Server host on a Linux client

Hello everyone,

I need a way to programatically monitor a remote SMB share (hosted on a
Windows server) for new files, in an asynchronous (inotify-like) way from a
Linux machine. The directory I'd be monitoring might have a large number of
files, so I'd like to avoid constant polling. I'm open to just about
anything, from parsing smbclient stdout, to writing my own little C wrapper
around libsmbclient or a JCIFS Java application.

I'd like to know if this kind of async monitoring is even possible, and
what would be a good way to go about implementing it?

Thanks in advance.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:30:34AM +0100, Tin Tvrtkovi?
wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I need a way to programatically monitor a remote SMB share (hosted on a
> Windows server) for new files, in an asynchronous (inotify-like) way from a
> Linux machine. The directory I'd be monitoring might have a large
number of
> files, so I'd like to avoid constant polling. I'm open to just
about
> anything, from parsing smbclient stdout, to writing my own little C wrapper
> around libsmbclient or a JCIFS Java application.
> 
> I'd like to know if this kind of async monitoring is even possible, and
> what would be a good way to go about implementing it?
If you're willing to work out of git-master, Volker just added a
notify command to smbclient....

Jeremy.