SMB share refresh question in debian

It would seem to be the problem you are describing is an issue with the probe basic file browser.
It would be an idea to make that issue known, especially the difficulty in moving through the directory tree.
Whilst your solution appears to work it would appear to be only slightly better than running rsync every couple of minutes via cron.

Yeah, the watchdog they have in Syncthing seems to loop more often than every couple of minutes. I also almost just wrote a simple watch script in python to monitor the folder and pull any changes. Of course pushing is always more ressources economical. I just assumed the mechanism they implemented in Syncthing would be more efficient than any of my poor man's solutions.

Any idea where I can suggest to Probebasic to implement a REFRESH button?

On the project's GitHub page.

Right. thanks.
done: github.com/kcjengr/probe_basic/issues/119

Out of curiosity: do you manage to have actual synchronization of remote shares on Linux file explorer without manually refreshing (either by F5 or going up a folder and down)?
Or is it just something that's not a thing?

forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...ebian?start=0#305349

Ok, yes, manually you manage.
Question was: automatically.
-> Default behaviour in both Windows and MacOs,

Dunno mate, don't use windows.

question = automatically on debian

The lack of dynamic refresh of remote smb shares in debian seems to be a long time Xfce issue, as per the few (mostly old) various forum's threads.

I guess a way of manually refresh in the various Guis would be the most straight forward fix.
That, or any type of dynamic local copying mechanism (rsync, syncthing, hosting the share on the machine rather than the server, etc.)

The syncthing option works great for me, been using the last days. It does exactly what I need, files appear in the gui's file browser as soon uploaded on the server, no user input needed.