Nautilus slow to browse samba shares

[Marc Williams]

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 21:58, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 22:27, Marc Williams wrote:
> > So my questions are
> > 1) is this length of time to browse Samba shares normal?
> > 2) can I do anything to significantly shorten this time?
> > 3) can I expect similar performance with Windows clients?

> I don't think I have any answers but I need to ask, how are you
> connecting to the other server?  Are you using the Network Servers item
> in the main menu?  
> 

Yes, a.k.a. the Nautilus browser.



> >From what you have reported maybe I am just not waiting long enough. 
> Will have to try that.  

I am interested in your results.  In my case it was sheer luck that I
happened to have been called away from my client machine long enough to
have discovered that waiting awhile solved the problem.  This after
quite a bit of diddling trying to get it to work.