I can confirm this exact behavior. When connecting via CIFS, a proper
notification is sent. When connecting via SMB2 or SMB3 protocol, the
notification is not sent. This affects for example creating folders,
where the default naming is something like "Untitled Folder" and is then
changed to the name it should be. The name never changes from "Untitled
Folder" on a another Mac OS X client until the share is unmounted and
mounted again.

Testing this on a Linux client, the notification is also not sent but a
refresh of the folder contents shows the updated information. This is
where Mac OS X apparently falls short as there is no way to successfully
refresh the SMB Finder window. The usual AppleScript approach via `tell
application "Finder" to tell front window to update every item` simply
hides the renamed item until you browser away from the folder and back
again. The latter is clearly a Mac OS X issue, while the former a
problem of Samba.

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