Re: Nautilus slow to browse samba shares

From: Scot L. Harris (webid_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 08/30/04

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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:58:35 -0400

    On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 22:27, Marc Williams wrote:
    > I'm testing out a machine that will become a file/print server for a few
    > Windows machines. It's a fully updated FC2 smp machine running the FC2
    > samba rpms. I set it up using the quick install guide I found on the
    > Samba site.
    >
    > It works, sort of. The only client machine I have to test with at the
    > moment is another Linux machine running Nautilus to connect with the
    > Samba server. After I reboot the server or restart the smb service, it
    > takes about 5-10 minutes for the server to show up in the client
    > Nautilus browser and another 15 minutes or so for the Samba shares to
    > appear. After that the connection works fine. I didn't put a stopwatch
    > to this so I could be off on these times. But it takes awhile.
    >
    > So my questions are
    > 1) is this length of time to browse Samba shares normal?
    > 2) can I do anything to significantly shorten this time?
    > 3) can I expect similar performance with Windows clients?
    >
    > Thank you!

    I don't think I have any answers but I need to ask, how are you
    connecting to the other server? Are you using the Network Servers item
    in the main menu?

    I can connect to samba shares and access the files on them with
    reasonable speed. But I have not been able to get nautilus on FC2 to
    see other systems on the network. I can connect using smbclient or
    setup things up in fstab. But nautilus is unable to see other systems.
    On FC1 this works just fine.

    >From what you have reported maybe I am just not waiting long enough.
    Will have to try that.
      

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