Re: [PLUG] More Samba WINS information...

["Bradley J. Molnar" <brad@student.usyd.edu.au>]

Ah, sorry, sleepy I think.  What I mean by slow is this:  the machine is 
slow in updating the network neighborhood.  Like, a machine will turn on 
and it won't be in the network neighborhood for a couple of minutes 
(when using samba as a domain controller for windows clients) and samba 
sometimes takes a few minutes to appear on their lists as well (when in 
a completely separate workgroup/domain from the samba box).

You are probably correct that it is just a problem of the smb protocol. 
I think it has to do with NT vs 9x clients as well.

Either way, I wasn't talking about updating files, I was talking about 
updating the browse list.  I sometimes can't express what I mean when 
I'm ready to fall asleep (I am in australia [check my return address], 
which is 14 hours ahead, so, while it is 10:15 am for you, it is 12:15 
am tuesday for me).

sorry about the confustion (if there still is some, I'll try to clear it up)

-brad

Greg Lopp wrote:

> On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:16:59PM +1000, Bradley J. Molnar wrote:
>
> > Samba may sometimes be slow in updating (I run it on a 
> > P133, so, it might just be my machine) 
> What do you mean by slow to update?  When I was still
> telecommuting for that Mt.Laurel telecom co. I had the following
> scenario :  
> 1) build target file via process on Solaris machine
> 2) read target file from Win95, file executes as if no change was made
> 3) under Solaris, delete and rebuild target
> 4) still no change from Win95
> 5) just delete under Solaris
> 6) Win95 still loads the file - even though its been deleted
>
> I'm pretty sure that this is an SMB thing.  I'm fairly certain
> that I've seen a similar thing between two linux boxes across
> samba shares.  What I want to know is, can you turn off this
> caching on both the linux and windows side? 
>
>
>
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