Is this normal Samba behavior?

[BobMCT]

Gents;

I use Samba v 2.2.x on an AIX 5.1 server. Access is from Win98 and XP desktops. Here is something that occurs regularly and I cannot understand why so perhaps someone can either explain why or suggest a way to overcome this symptom.

Lets assume I map a drive to a share on the AIX machine. Then I access a file on that drive and display it on the PC. OK - works fine. Now, if I edit that same file on the AIX server then re-access from the PC the OLD version of the file is displayed. Only if I disconnect the drive then remap it again and THEN access the file does it show the NEW version of the file.

Can anyone explain? Any way to resolve without the disconnect/reconnect action?

TIA

 

[PHV]

Seems like some cache issue, client side.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[rzs0502]

I've seen this on our AIX servers as well as Slackware 10 on my laptop.
You may also notice that if you delete a file from a share, it still appears until you close and re-connect or refresh Explorer.
The following setting seemed to have worked for me:
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192


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