Hello, we are currently in the process of migrating a Windows network to Ubuntu. In the transition, we are still heavily using SMB filesharing. The windows machines form a domain controlled by a samba PDC on Debian Linux. Under windows, I can see all machines in the network neighborhood as soon as they are online. In nautilus, it can take up to one hour for them to appear under "Places"->"Network". They are immediately available if using "Connect to server..." and entering the name manually. Refreshing the list via F5 or the refresh button does not help.
What might be causing this? What methods does nautilus use for creating the list of available computers, and which are preferred? Currently, we have the choice between WINS (implemented by the Samba PDC) and plain old windows browse lists with the samba PDC being the master browser. We do not have something like active directory, though we have DNS resolution for all clients and also a LDAP server at hand. Would there be other methods like DNS-SD (using static DNS entries, not mDNS) which are more reliable? Thanks, Andreas -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
