I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, with the standard Gnome desktop. When I click on Places > Network I get a quickly opened window showing this machine, and Windows Network. When I double click on Windows Network it takes a couple of seconds and I get HOUSE and WORKGROUP, the two different Windows network names in use. When I double click on HOUSE it takes about 15 seconds to show me an icon for my wife's machine. It takes another 15 seconds after double clicking on that icon before I see the icons for the different shares on her machine, and another 10 seconds to open one of the shares. After that, file transfer is fast enough that I can't say there's any delay.
I get a similar experience connecting to my Lucid Laptop when going through Samba. Oddly, the icon for my laptop used to appear in Places > Network along with an icon for this machine. That was after building this machine a few weeks ago and before installing Samba. Now, in order to get to my Lucid Laptop I have to click Places > Network > Windows Network > WORKGROUP to see the laptop's icon. Is this some kind of security handshaking that is different with the Samba that installed last month vs the Samba that ran fine for over a year on my old machine, which was also running Lucid? Any ideas on what to tweak so that I can get quicker connect times to machines on my local network? Thanks. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
