----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Zavasnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: Unix to Dos filtering
> Stephen L Arnold wrote:
> >
> >If you work with files from a windoze client that reside on a samba share, windoze
>will
> >cache the file contents locally, thus changes made from the unix/linux side (after
>the
> >file has been opened once in windoze) will not be visible to the windoze client,
>even
> >if you re-open the file or refresh windoze exploder (i.e., windoze will only see
>the
> >cached file contents).
> >You must reboot windoze (or maybe just logout from NT) before it will see the
>updated contents.
>
> I don't see this behavior. I have samba exporting my Solaris home directory.
> If I edit a file on Solaris and periodically save the contents, when I open the
> file on my NT machine using vim I see the most recently saved version
> (no refresh/remap/logout/reboot necessary.
Neither have I. I have never heard of such a thing. Perhaps an application is doing
this? Certainly not samba
-- Matthew Brown
