Hi Ali,

By default on all NT systems FileSystemWatcher uses WinNTWatcherStrategy, which is specially designed for working on NTFS file system. This strategy also works if remote share is on NTFS file system, but it will not work for another file system. You can try another watcher strategy (for example Win9xWatcherStrategy) in your case, but this implementation is less effective.

-Serge

Well, I know from our support history that it's possible to monitor file events on such Samba shares using the Win9xWatcherStrategy class. At least you can try the following code to verify that:

   FileSystemWatcher watcher = new FileSystemWatcher(folder, true);
   watcher.setStrategy(Win9xWatcherStrategy.class);
   ...

In fact this implementation (Win9xWatcherStrategy) is more efficient than the periodic re-scanning of the watched folders, because it's based on handling file system events. Though its performance greatly depends on the size of a watched folder. And you can always tune up the performance if necessary, because there are the sources of our implementation in WinPack library.

-Serge