Re: mc starts after 60 second delay (fwd)

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Lindy Mayfield wrote:

> 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.

No. Most likely on the other machine you have MC which does not
have samba code built-in.

> 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 the samba code that MC uses is a bit outdated and doesn't know of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.
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