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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 the samba code that MC uses is a bit outdated and doesn't know of 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. >> > _______________________________________________ > Mc mailing list > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc > > _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
