How to watch samba shared folder/drive using filesystemwatcher in windows?

Question

Here is some tricky problem. I am trying to watch a shared folder which is on Linux machine. I am running the program on windows XP which is developed in Visual Studio 2005, VC++ and using FileSystemWatcher class. But it's not raising events for that shared folder at all. Please suggest a solution.

Answer 1

A workaround, instead of a proper solution, is the following: If you have access on the Linux machine you could use inotify to detect file changes and communicate them to your application over the net.