http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564260 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564260#c0 Summary: vfs_fam doc'ed in samba, but missing samba module to work with fam-server Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: suse@tlinx.org QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-UTF-8; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) It appears that the creator of the samba-clients package wasn't fully on the same page with the samba-doc and fam_server package creators, in as much that the samba-clients package is missing "vfs_notify_fam" module. I.e. it's documented in the samba documentation, and opensuse includes the fam-server and [fam-2.7] clients in both 11.1 and 11.2, but the key component to use it in samba is missing. Took me a while to figure out why it didn't work -- as my eyes played tricks and I thought I Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. check out packages samba-client, samba-doc fam-server in 11.1 or 11.2 2. notice inconsistency....(I tried to use vfs_notify_fam in samba and have fam-server installed and running) 3. Actual Results: vfs_notify_fam documented in samba-doc rpm to work with fam-server in fam-server rpm but vfs_notify_fam is missing from the list of vfs modules in samba-client symptom: trying to mount a share with vfs_notify_fam fails with error in samba log that vfs_notify_fam module isn't found (debug level=4 in smb.conf). Expected Results: expected vfs_notify_fam to work in samba and connect with fam-server, allowing windows clients to detect changes to the share's files, made by users actually on the server. I.e. Say I'm running songbird on a windows client. Songbird asks windows for notification of any changes to a 'watch dir' (as do many music client programs). If I am on windows and make changes to those dirs, songbird will see them, but if I am on the server and make changes, songbird doesn't get notification -- why? Because on linux we need notifications to be delivered to samba. That is what fam-server is supposed to do. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.