Re: mc starts after 60 second delay (fwd)

["Lindy Mayfield" <lindymayfield gmail com>]

Thanks very much!  That cured it.

I had the line --
interfaces = lo, vmnet1

in my smb.conf file because I was testing some things with VMWare
Server.  What is interesting is that I have the same interfaces
directive in my smb.conf file on a Centos 4.1 system and mc has no
problems there.  Probably there is an updated library somewhere for
that issue.

Thanks again. I would have never guessed it was samba related, though
I was sure somewhere there was a network timeout.  Makes perfect sense
now.

Regards,
Lindy



On 9/15/06, Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net> wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:30:16 +0300
> > From: Lindy Mayfield
> > To: Pavel Tsekov
> > Subject: Re: mc starts after 60 second delay
> >
> > Yes, as a matter of fact I've recently installed samba.
> >
> > why?  What are you thinking?
> >
> > This is Ubuntu but on another system I have Centos4.1 where I've also
> > installed samba and mc works fine there.
> >
> > what about samba could be doing this?  how could I test it?  shut down samba?
>
> MC has support for samba. If samba support is enabled, MC will
> read the global samba configuration file at startup. Unfortunately
> the samba code that MC uses is a bit outdated and doesn't know of
> certain changes made to the directives in the samba configuration
> file. The "interfaces" directive is the one that we are interested
> in - now it allows network interface names  (like eth0, wlan0, etc),
> but it didn't in the past. Not  knowing this the samba code in MC
> tries to resolve the interface name as if it was a host name.
>
> Now, if you computer is not connected to the internet and
> the "interfaces" directive in your configuration file does
> contain a network interface name then MC will hang. To
> workaround the hang you could comment out the directive,
> or change its value so that it will contain an ip/mask
> pair(s).
>
> I hope that helps.