Dolphin don't refresh files list in samba shares until f5 pressed

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Hello.
When I on my system open share folder like “smb://server/share/” in dolphin and adding or removing files on other system, i can’t see the changes in my system until pressing F5. Is there any system settings to track changes in folders?

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This is a good question. A samba client can send a SMB2 “CHANGE NOTIFY” request packet to request change notifications on a directory. It doesn’t appear to me that Dolphin does that though. (I agree that it would be nice if it could poll at a reasonable interval for such changes though.)

From a server perspective, the man page for smb.conf mentions that

change notify (G) 

This parameter specifies whether Samba should reply to a client's file change notify requests. 

You should never need to change this parameter 

Default: change notify = yes

So it’s active by default for samba servers at least.

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Sad thing :(.

Can there be another file manager that does a good job of this task?

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AFAIK, they all operate the same way (ie manual reload needed). Are your remote shares hosted on Linux or Windows machine (or a mixture of the two)?

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FWIW, here’s a thread discussing the same topic…
https://askubuntu.com/questions/311303/how-to-update-dolphin-file-manager-in-real-time
It includes some suggestions about using scripts to undertake a refresh automatically on a periodic basis. Not really an elegant solution though.

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In my network I use both systems

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Thx! I saw this thread, but I thought it wouldn’t so complicated.

Is it really that all users do it manually?

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Yes, for the reasons already explained.

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You could always submit a bug report or discuss via mailing list if desired…
https://bugzilla.samba.org/
https://www.samba.org/samba/archives.html