How to get notification on ubuntu when changes in windows machine directory?

Question

I have two machines:

(Both machines are in same network)

Linux machine (ubuntu 16.04), and
Windows machine (Win 7)

I need to create a watch on directory of windows machine and when any file or directory created (required for recursive directories) then the notification sends to the Linux machine that what changes are done.

I have tried with the python library:

https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools

But it having bug that it's not working for the recursive directory and might not support in windows.

so your question can *either* be [tag:python-2.7] *or* [tag:python-3.4], not both. If you don't care, remove both tags. — Marcus Müller, Aug 10 '16 at 07:56

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 10 '16 at 08:03

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I've had the same problem and solved it by just polling for files and directories with a modification date set after the last poll.

answered Aug 10 '16 at 08:03

Jacques de Hooge

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Hi @Jacques de Hooge, will u please provide some link or small demo to do this, I am not getting how to do polling for files. – Jeenit khatri Aug 10 '16 at 08:34
you list all files and directories. You check whether they are the same as last time. – Marcus Müller Aug 10 '16 at 09:15
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/182197/how-do-i-watch-a-file-for-changes-using-python See answer by Deestan.. But: Poll in a thread and add a sleep of e.g. 5 sec to avoid polling to much. Traverse dir tree by using os.walk () and poll file by file. – Jacques de Hooge Aug 10 '16 at 09:58
Its not working for me ! :( – Jeenit khatri Aug 10 '16 at 12:01
We have synology rack server is it matter, because windows is in rack server. – Jeenit khatri Aug 10 '16 at 12:02

How to get notification on ubuntu when changes in windows machine directory?

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