Samba & Nautilus 2.14.0 (in FC5) - Totally Screwed?

[futz]

What is going on with FC5's Nautilus? When accessing samba shares (on another linux box) it either is incredibly, unbelievably slow or just won't work properly. And just when it won't work seems kinda random. One time it will work and the next it won't. It locks up at the drop of a hat.

I finally started Konqueror to see if it had the same problem (had to fumble for a short while to learn to use it). It works GREAT! Fast!!! No problems. Only thing is, I like Nautilus better than Konqueror. (Actually, if I could have a Windoze Explorer clone for Linux I'd be totally happy, but that may be a while coming.)

I don't remember FC4's Nautilus being this messed up. I don't know what version it was, but I remember it working acceptably. How do I go back? Or when will messed up v2.14.0 be debugged?

[SlowJet]

# yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing

Thsi will get you back on track and the regular updates includes samba-3.0.22 which has some fixes.
Biut most samba problems are network related in the dsn, dhcp, domain, netbios, host, in other words addrees resolution.
And FC5 has been a moving target in those area, plus samba-3.0.21 was sorta buggy.

I'm only using client to windows shares for now but after about 3 or 4 secords I get my password popup, enter thatand press enter, the natutilas windows is full folders and file in blink.

SJ

[futz]

I don't understand how you think updating samba will make my nautilus work better. As I said, samba works nice and quick with konqueror, but horrible with nautilus. It would seem to me that the problem lies with nautilus, not samba. But maybe I'm missing something...

[SlowJet]

Because Nautilas is one of the updates in updates-testing.
samba-3.0.22 was only posted on the samba site on the 30th and so the developers must have been working on it in lue of samba-3.0.21c. Plus there are about 30 other updates depending on what you have installed.
Probably most of these will be in the regular updates repo soon.

SJ

[futz]

# yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing
I did it and even rebooted to make sure all the updates were working. No change.

Just for kicks, I started nautilus and requested a directory from the share on my Ubuntu box. Then, while waiting for that, I started konqueror, waited for it to start, changed modes, requested the same directory, waited a few seconds till it was displayed, navigated down thru some sub-dir's, picked a file and copied it to this box. I didn't rush at all. And nautilus was still waiting with a blank screen and the mouse cursor thingy spinning. It eventually got there, but WAY too slow. Something needs looking at.