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

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Tue Nov 7 15:40:00 CET 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 13:33 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> 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
That's odd - "NT1" is the default for the "protocol" parameter, so
setting "protocol = NT1" doesn't make a difference from not setting
"protocol" at all.

> 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?
Usually, browsing problems are related to TCP/IP broadcasting not
working correctly, for example because no master browser can be reached.

Cheers,

Jelmer

-- 
Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/
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