Nautilus slow to browse samba shares

[Scot L. Harris]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 12:48, Marc Williams wrote:

> Thanks, but alas, no.  NT1 is the default protocol so that is what I was
> using even though it's not specified in the conf.
> 
> 

I had thought that also.  But until I added that in my configuration it
did not appear to work under FC2.  Of course I could be missing
something here.  I was able to access other systems shares via
non-nautilus means, fstab, smbclient.

I really thought this was bug in nautilus not samba.    


> > So at the moment this is working with iptables disabled but when it is
> > enabled it does not work.  
> 
> Are you positive about that?  Is it repeatable?  Not that I'm doubting
> what you see but rather my experimenting (also with firewall, hosts, and
> smb.conf settings) yields inconsistent results.  Sometimes things pop up
> quickly and sometimes they don't - even without changing anything. 
> That's why I asked about repeatability.
> 

I have tried this on two different FC2 systems.  With iptables enabled I
get the error message about not being able to display the entire
contents.  With iptables disabled I can see all the systems in the
workgroup.  It seems like it is repeatable.  On both FC2 systems I have
tested on here when I enable iptables I get that message.  Previously I
never got to that point as it never listed the workgroups.  I double and
triple checked that I had the samba ports opened up as well.  

> In all cases for me, even when things don't appear quickly, they will
> eventually if I wait long enough.  That part seems to be consistent.
> 

I waited a couple of hours this morning with no change.  When it was in
that state it did not appear to be working it appeared that it had
finished and nothing showed up.

> Just to get something straight, when you say that things work with FC1
> but not FC2, are you referring to the Samba server machine or client
> machine?  In my case, both are FC2.

The FC1 boxes running as clients have not had any problems browsing via
nautilus on the network.  Every FC2 box I have setup was unable to see
any systems in the workgroup, until this morning when I made that
change. I have a number of XP boxes, as well as samba running on a
several of RH8, FC1 and FC2 systems.  I have shares setup on the RH8,
and FC2 systems that should be accessible by all systems.  Even the RH8
system can browse the network by entering smb:/// in nautilus.  Until
today I have not been able to get that to work. 

When I get home tonight I will re-check the two FC2 boxes I have there
with the same problem and verify that after the change they can see the
workgroup.

I have to say this has been the biggest issue I have had with FC2 other
than poor wireless support.  Now I can actually see this starting to
work and hopefully with a little more tweaking it will be fully
functioning as it was under FC1.

Now the remaining problem appears to be some kind of interaction with
nautilus and iptables when accessing samba or windows shares.
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