On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 20:18, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: > I'm having probles when using nautilus to browse smb-shares, either on > another linux-box or on a windoze-box, it takes ages to connect, then > I'm asked for a password and then it takes ages again. > Finally I get a list of the shares on the box, when double-clicking one > of them it takes ages AGAIN, but when I'm finally inside a share things > seem to be working fine.... > Any ideas? > > Sturla > are you talking about typing "smb://" in the nautilus location bar? and then expecting that it will show workgroups available, and just click on those and show machines with shares? first of all, i believe you need one of the machines to become the master for netbios/wins in your lan. second, you need to make sure you have the rule: iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m state --state NEW -m udp --sport 137 -j ACCEPT nautilus will try to connect to port 137/udp, and also receives responses from port 137/udp, so you basically have to open up 137 on your machine. i hope this helps somehow. dex
