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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/
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