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. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx diplomacy, n: Lying in state.
