Re: Auto-refresh

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 19:26 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> Op 19-09-12 11:59, Alexander Larsson schreef:
> > On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 16:51 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> >> Hallo,
> >>
> >> Normally, when something changes on disk, I see this directly or very
> >> fast in Nautilus (2.30.1) when it's open.
> >> E.g. when I change something using the commandline.
> >>
> >> But I am working now on a NFS-share, and when somebody else changes
> >> something, I don't see that in Nautilus. I have to click on the
> >> "refresh" button first.
> >>
> >> I am interested if there is a better way to do some kind of "auto-refresh".
> > 
> > To get this working you need file change notification. NFS unfortunately
> > does not support this (except for locally made changes). 
> 
> Does Samba support this?

I *think* the core smb protocol supports this, but I don't know if the
sambe implementation does, and I do know that the gvfs smb backend does
not (although it could be added if the samba libs support it).