browsing networks

[Simon Barner]

> I have been using Nautilus quite successfully to browse NFS and SMB
> shares for some time now.

How is the browsing performance that you get? I am on a 95% Windows
network here (~ 50 clients, "organized" as a workgroup (!) due to the
incompatibility of the various windows variants and due to the fact that
this is a student hostel here which is administrated on a volunteer
basis. We use a samba server as master browser and WINS server).

Neither Nautilus nor my local samba installation seem to cache the list
of available host, shares on a host, etc. browsing is extremely slow
(but it does work). Concerning Nautilus I verified that when I had a look
at the source code of the  gnomevfs-extras module where I found
according comments. I don't know whether samba-libsmbclient (which is
used to implement the smb:// protocol) is supposed to do some caching.

Does anyone know how to speed up things a little bit, or is it possible
that I am suffering from a misconfiguration?

Simon
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