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!
