smb-shares

[Sturla Holm Hansen]

I'm having probles when using nautilus to browse smb-shares, either on
another linux-box or on a windoze-box, it takes ages to connect, then
I'm asked for a password and then it takes ages again.
Finally I get a list of the shares on the box, when double-clicking one
of them it takes ages AGAIN, but when I'm finally inside a share things
seem to be working fine....
Any ideas?

Sturla

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 03.01.2003 schrieb Sturla Holm Hansen um 13:18:
>  I'm having probles when using nautilus to browse smb-shares,
> either on
>  another linux-box or on a windoze-box, it takes ages to connect, then
>  I'm asked for a password and then it takes ages again.
>  Finally I get a list of the shares on the box, when double-clicking one
>  of them it takes ages AGAIN, but when I'm finally inside a share things
>  seem to be working fine....
>  Any ideas?
>  
>  Sturla 
First, please correct your system's date! You are sending with Jan. 3rd
2003!

Is there firewalling active? Check iptables rules for TCP and UDP.

Post your smb.conf. Who is master browser?

Is it a pure TCP network you are in or does there run any other
protocols like IPX?

Alexander


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[Roger Grosswiler]

>  Am Fr, den 03.01.2003 schrieb Sturla Holm Hansen um 13:18:
[snip]
> > I'm having probles when using nautilus to browse smb-shares,
> either on
> > another linux-box or on a windoze-box, it takes ages to connect, then
> > I'm asked for a password and then it takes ages again. 
[/snip]
1) Did you check out your samba-logs at /var/log/samba ? If you do top in
the shell of your samba-server (while trying to connect to your server)
which program is on top? how many % does it take?

2) Do you have some kind of antivirus-software enabled? i saw this effect
on my samba-server, when i used dazuko online-scanning. it took me up to 5
minutes, until i got a files-list. (was a kernel-module, not compiled in)

3) If there are network-errors, you should find them in /var/log/messages.
Have look, if you find some errors from your network (e.g. with a
misconfigured card eth0 or hostname or whatever...)

Roger

>  Is there firewalling active? Check iptables rules for TCP and UDP.
>
>  Post your smb.conf. Who is master browser?
>
>  Is it a pure TCP network you are in or does there run any other
>  protocols like IPX?
>
>  Alexander
>
>
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[Dexter Ang]

On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 20:18, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote:
>  I'm having probles when using nautilus to browse smb-shares,
> either on
>  another linux-box or on a windoze-box, it takes ages to connect, then
>  I'm asked for a password and then it takes ages again.
>  Finally I get a list of the shares on the box, when double-clicking one
>  of them it takes ages AGAIN, but when I'm finally inside a share things
>  seem to be working fine....
>  Any ideas?
>  
>  Sturla
>   
are you talking about typing "smb://" in the nautilus location bar? and
then expecting that it will show workgroups available, and just click on
those and show machines with shares? first of all, i believe you need
one of the machines to become the master for netbios/wins in your lan.
second, you need to make sure you have the rule:

iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m state --state NEW -m udp --sport 137 -j
ACCEPT

nautilus will try to connect to port 137/udp, and also receives
responses from port 137/udp, so you basically have to open up 137 on
your machine. i hope this helps somehow.

dex

[Sturla Holm Hansen]

On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 13:18, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote:
>  I'm having probles when using nautilus to browse smb-shares,
> either on
>  another linux-box or on a windoze-box, it takes ages to connect, then
>  I'm asked for a password and then it takes ages again.
>  Finally I get a list of the shares on the box, when double-clicking one
>  of them it takes ages AGAIN, but when I'm finally inside a share things
>  seem to be working fine....
>  Any ideas?
>  
>  Sturla
>   
Thanx to all that replied, it was just a matter of setting up the
samba-server as master browser....
Feel kinda stupid for not thinking about it, but thanx for the help :)

Sturla