RE: Force refresh on Netserver Shared Folder on Windows

It seems that your PC app might be based on the FileSystem watcher event perhaps ? What PC app are you using ?

If it's something you coded yourself, just list the files yourself as any good polling app would do and problem solved.

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message: 2
date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 09:29:43 -0500
from: Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Force refresh on Netserver Shared Folder on Windows

Hey everybody!

Question.. the old netserver for IBM i was odd as it didn't refresh the
directory listing automatically. This is for a V5R4 machine.

For example, lets say your on a PC and viewing the contents of a shared IFS
directory. Someone puts a file there (through the share from another PC,
FTP, CPYTOSTMF, etc)... you won't know until you refresh/F5.

I have a PC application that is watching a shared IFS directory for files.
This issue means it doesn't work and won't fire off.

Are there any settings for netserver and/or on the windows PC that will fix
this?

Bradley V. Stone
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