Re: smb:// very slow

[George J Karabin <gkarabin pobox com>]

Yeah - me too. I took a shot at a patch to cover at least some of these 
cases, but there wasn't much enthusiasm upstream. The cache that 
libsmbclient uses is root-owned, and users using libsmbclient can't 
write into it, so any authentication results that should have been 
cached have to be reacquired on demand (IIRC).

I fixed that, AFAIK, and audited as much code as I could to make sure 
it wasn't broken, but I think it was fairly low priority for the 
upstream guys and it's been bugzilla'd till LATER.

Check out https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259 . The patch 
may be a bit out of date, and I no longer have easy access to a windows 
network, so I haven't looked at it in a while. If anyone has any luck 
with it, let me know, and I'll push on it again.

- George

On Jul 8, 2004, at 4:26 AM, Mike Hearn wrote:

> I had this problem about a year and a half ago. I did some work on it 
> with
> ethereal and iirc found it was an authentication problem, gnome-vfs was
> constantly attempting to reauthenticate to one of the network servers 
> and
> each time it did, had to wait for the response.
>
> Back then, the result was that the window just filled up extremely 
> slowly.
> Since Nautilus was changed to not do incremental icon rendering, you 
> get
> what you see now, which is it taking ages for anything to appear.
>
> I don't remember the details and while I filed a bug, I can no longer 
> find
> it in bugzilla! So I guess you'll need to do some investigation with
> ethereal like I did to see if it's the same problem.
>
> thanks -mike
>
> On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:29:47 -0700, Sanchez the Cactus wrote:
> > I'm trying to use nautilus 2.6 (debian unstable packages) to access 
> > files on my
> > company's network share, but the load time is incredibly slow.  Using 
> > smbclient
> > //server/share to connect, I can ls and cd instantaneously.  However, 
> > using
> > nautilus to go to smb://server/share, the folder can take on the 
> > order of 10
> > seconds just to ask me for my password, and then another 30 seconds 
> > to a minute
> > (or more) to show a directory listing.  This slowdown continues for 
> > each
> > subfolder that I open in nautilus, with the xcursor over the nautilus 
> > window
> > turning into an hourglass until the folder loads.  Is this a known 
> > issue (I
> > couldn't find anything in bugzilla)?  is there any known way to speed 
> > it up?
> > Or can I provide some more information somehow to help debug this?
>
>
>
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