Re: smb:// very slow

[Greg <greg smeggy no-ip com>]

as a follow up, I am using a sym link from ~/.smb/smb.conf to
/etc/samba/smb.conf 
It works fine as an interim solution

-Greg

On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 01:07, y9toi7y02 sneakemail com wrote:
> 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
> 
> PS. I am on the list, no need for CC's