On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:30:34AM +0100, Tin Tvrtković 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.
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