[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#397441: nautilus is very slow to browse samba shares

[Fabian Greffrath]

package: samba-common
version: 3.0.23c-3
severity: minor

Hello!

At home we have two computers connected via ethernet. My wife's one is
running Windows XP (SP2 I think) and I am running Debian testing. Her
personal folder and several others are made shared folders in Windows.

When I want to browse her shared folders via nautilus' network://
protocol it takes very long until the list of Windows PCs appears. Then,
when I click on my wife's PC, it takes even longer (I think) until the
list of shared directories appears and finally when I enter one
directory it takes long until it's contents appear. The funny thing is,
once I made it through this sluggish process, everthing is as fast as
expected. 
This means, closing previous nautilus windows and opening network://
again in nautilus and browsing through the shared folders is nearly as
fast as browsing through local folders. 
Except for the first try per session...

I found an article describing a similar phenomenon at:
http://beranger.org/index.php?article=959

This guy solved the problem by adding
	protocol = NT1
to the [global] section of /etc/samba/smb.conf

I also tried this but do not want to _swear_ if it brough a significant
increase in access time. I will further investigate on this. However,
how about adding this line to smb.conf by default?

Do you have any further tips or ideas concerning my request?

Thank you very much,
Fabian