Re: smb:// very slow

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On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, "Cristóvão B. B. Dalla Costa"cbraga-at-fs.inf.br  |nautilus| wrote:
> We've been having similar problems, specially with Windows networks
> where Nautilus sometimes fails to display anything at all. smbclient
> works just fine for us.
>
> I've just checked and we don't have .smb directories at all, could there
> be another configuration problem? Any other hints?
If you look in the code here:

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-vfs/modules/smb-method.c?rev=1.5&view=auto

(search for 'try_init') you can see the code.

This was the first mention of it that I could find:

http://anoncvs.gnome.gr.jp/viewcvs.cgi/gnome-vfs-extras/smb-method.c?rev=1.37.2.1&view=markup

(look at the end, it sais:

//FIXME create an empty ~/.smb/smb.conf

)

Earlier versions of the module used a private copy of samba. That way it
could set some things that cannot be set when using the libsmbclient
interface. Obviously it's a maintenance nightmare though. Anyway you might
have such an old version that does require ~/.smb/smb.conf but does not
create it for you.

Here you can see (in the code) libsmbclient loading ~/.smb/smb.conf

http://samba.org/doxygen/samba/group__misc.html#a2

Martijn Vernooij

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