From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 27 23:00:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6759D16A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:00:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from brabys.co.za (postoffice.brabys.co.za [192.96.48.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E03643FDF for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:00:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nelis@brabys.co.za) Received: from [192.96.48.37] (proxy-inner.brabys.co.za [192.96.48.11]) by brabys.co.za (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id h9S6x2cp016669; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:59:02 +0200 From: Nelis Lamprecht To: Simon Barner In-Reply-To: <20031027220003.GA1004@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <000601c39ac0$bc2c6410$0100a8c0@carmodathinkpad> <1067063917.72765.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20031025203142.GA24625@defiant.kinali.ch> <1067114293.81969.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1067235434.74651.12.camel@enigma.8ball.co.za> <20031027220003.GA1004@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1067324342.92508.51.camel@enigma.8ball.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:59:02 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: FreeBSD Gnome Mail List Subject: Re: browsing networks X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: nelis@brabys.co.za List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:00:49 -0000 On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:00, Simon Barner wrote: > How is the browsing performance that you get? I am on a 95% Windows > network here (~ 50 clients, "organized" as a workgroup (!) due to the > incompatibility of the various windows variants and due to the fact that > this is a student hostel here which is administrated on a volunteer > basis. We use a samba server as master browser and WINS server). I use Samba on a 800+ client multi-domain network and authenticate via a trusted domain. The actual listing of Workgroups etc is instant but when it comes to listing the contents of a share with a large amount of files/directories it can take awhile. When this occurs I just use smbclient from command line which is fast. > > Neither Nautilus nor my local samba installation seem to cache the list > of available host, shares on a host, etc. browsing is extremely slow > (but it does work). Concerning Nautilus I verified that when I had a look > at the source code of the gnomevfs-extras module where I found > according comments. I don't know whether samba-libsmbclient (which is > used to implement the smb:// protocol) is supposed to do some caching. > > Does anyone know how to speed up things a little bit, or is it possible > that I am suffering from a misconfiguration? For me a probably configured WINS server with the various domains listed as static mappings did the trick. I also listed the domain/servers I connect to regularly in my /etc/hosts file. One thing I've noticed with the past few versions of Nautilus is that smb has become case sensitive and unfortunately you can't connect to hidden($) shares. Maybe someone knows how to do this ? If like me you do support for windows users then you wouldn't rely on Nautilus though I'm sure future versions will have a lot better support for smb. In the mean time tightVNC is your friend. Nelis