Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:59:02 +0200 From: Nelis Lamprecht <nelis@brabys.co.za> To: Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de> Cc: FreeBSD Gnome Mail List <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: browsing networks Message-ID: <1067324342.92508.51.camel@enigma.8ball.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20031027220003.GA1004@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <000601c39ac0$bc2c6410$0100a8c0@carmodathinkpad> <1067063917.72765.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20031025203142.GA24625@defiant.kinali.ch> <1067114293.81969.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1067235434.74651.12.camel@enigma.8ball.co.za> <20031027220003.GA1004@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
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On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:00, Simon Barner wrote: > How is the browsing performance that you get? I am on a 95% Windows > network here (~ 50 clients, "organized" as a workgroup (!) due to the > incompatibility of the various windows variants and due to the fact that > this is a student hostel here which is administrated on a volunteer > basis. We use a samba server as master browser and WINS server). I use Samba on a 800+ client multi-domain network and authenticate via a trusted domain. The actual listing of Workgroups etc is instant but when it comes to listing the contents of a share with a large amount of files/directories it can take awhile. When this occurs I just use smbclient from command line which is fast. > > Neither Nautilus nor my local samba installation seem to cache the list > of available host, shares on a host, etc. browsing is extremely slow > (but it does work). Concerning Nautilus I verified that when I had a look > at the source code of the gnomevfs-extras module where I found > according comments. I don't know whether samba-libsmbclient (which is > used to implement the smb:// protocol) is supposed to do some caching. > > Does anyone know how to speed up things a little bit, or is it possible > that I am suffering from a misconfiguration? For me a probably configured WINS server with the various domains listed as static mappings did the trick. I also listed the domain/servers I connect to regularly in my /etc/hosts file. One thing I've noticed with the past few versions of Nautilus is that smb has become case sensitive and unfortunately you can't connect to hidden($) shares. Maybe someone knows how to do this ? If like me you do support for windows users then you wouldn't rely on Nautilus though I'm sure future versions will have a lot better support for smb. In the mean time tightVNC is your friend. Nelis
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