On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 21:58, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 22:27, Marc Williams wrote: > > 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? > 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? > Yes, a.k.a. the Nautilus browser. > >From what you have reported maybe I am just not waiting long enough. > Will have to try that. I am interested in your results. In my case it was sheer luck that I happened to have been called away from my client machine long enough to have discovered that waiting awhile solved the problem. This after quite a bit of diddling trying to get it to work.