Nautilus slow to browse samba shares

[Don Maxwell]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:04:23 +0800 (HKT), HaJo Schatz wrote:

> Marc Williams said:
> > On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 22:19, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 23:06, Marc Williams wrote:
> >>
> >> > 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.
> 
> That does sound somewhat familiar, I think to remember that I had &
> resolved the issue once. I'm unfortunately away from my Samba machine, Ie
> can't check right now. Does "broadcast" ring a bell?

Slow browsing of the MSFT Network Neighborhood via Nautilus was
observed a few weeks ago, at least by me and some others.  The
situation corrected for me with a kernel upgrade.  I would launch
"Network Servers" from the Gnome app menu and the thing would wait
quite a long time (in hours!) until the "Windows Network" would
appear.  However, the problem is now corrected and I am using kernel
2.6.8-1.521.