>>I need to run my foxpro application in a environment with more than 10 users so i put the dbf files on a ubuntu file server.
>>I need to scan a directory on the file server from a windows PC, to see if there are temporary files created by the users.
>>What happens is that the file is created but the adir function takes several seconds before seeing them. It answer 0 files.
>>I tried to create a file and run the adir directly from the user pc and the command works fine.
>>It looks like Ubuntu hides the folder content for a while.
>>Hope my english was good enough :)
>>thanks to all
>
>Have you tried Sys(2000)?

Hi Tore, i found a trick!
If I keep a windows' explorer open on the target folder then it works fine.
Windows' misteries!!

Thanks for your reply