JSI Tip 8580. How do I prevent a 'server' from notifying clients that file and/or folder information on the server's shares has changed?

When your computer serves shares to client computers, Windows Explorer uses SMBs (Server Message Blocks) to post a NTNotifyDirectoryChange to connected clients.

If you wish to reduce network traffic, you can turn off Change Notify requests for a user, or for the client computer.

I have script NoChangeNotify.bat to turn of Change Notify requests.

The syntax for using NoChangeNotify.bat is:

NoChangeNotify [/U or /C]

Where:

/U turns off Change Notify requests for the current user. If no switch is specified, /U is the default.

/C turns off Change Notify requests for all users of the current computer.

NOTE: Windows XP SP2 includes the code to process the NoRemoteChangeNotify Value Name. For Windows XP SP1, and Windows 2000 SP3 and greater, you need the 812669 hotfix.

NoChangeNotify.bat contains:

@echo offsetlocalset sw=%1if "%sw%" EQU "" set sw=/Uif /i "%sw%" EQU "/U" goto userif /i "%sw%" EQU "/C" goto computer@echo Syntax: NoChangeNotify /U or /Cendlocalgoto :EOF:userset key=HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorergoto common:computerset key=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer:common(@echo REGEDIT4@echo.@echo [%key%]@echo "NoRemoteChangeNotify"=dword:00000001@echo.@echo.)>"%TEMP%NoRemoteChangeNotify.tmp"regedit /s "%TEMP%NoRemoteChangeNotify.tmp"del /q "%TEMP%NoRemoteChangeNotify.tmp"endlocal