[jcifs] MSBROWSE ?

[J.Sugrue at pilz.ie]

hi
I just found out that the second network card was not connected to the
network at all.
Is there any way of avoiding checking a network card such as this?

thanks
James

James Sugrue



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  |       jcifs-admin at lists.samba.org                                                                                                           |
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:32:40AM +0100, J.Sugrue at pilz.ie wrote:
>
> Great, that worked.
> However, it is quite slow now, on the machine with 2 network cards,
> It works as normal on a machine with one network card.
>
> any ideas of how this could be speeded up?

Something's probably timeing out. To be honest, I have never tooled with
multiple interfaces. You'll need to flip on full logging and/or break
out Ethereal/NetMon to see what's happening. Chances are it's just some
name lookup failures. Whatching a log is the easiest way to see what
setting isn't quite right.

If you're not confident at looking at the traces, record a full log with
the -Dlog=ALL VM flag and send it to mballen at erols.com (if you send it
to the list s/secret/fake/).

Mike

> > For jCIFS to retrive the list of hosts or enumerate domains on a
NetBIOS
> > network, the Master Browser must be queried. This is done by
broadcasting
> > a for a special name that has the word MSBROWSE in it. If a master
browser
> > is not found it is likely that the network settings for jCIFS will need
> > to be adjusted. There are several properties available to do this. See
> > the bottom of the Overview Summary in the jCIFS API documentation for
> > details about all available jCIFS properties and how to set them.
> >
> > Here are some properties that are specific to the problem you describe:
> >
> >   jcifs.netbios.baddr
> >   jcifs.smb.client.laddr
> >   jcifs.netbios.laddr
> >
> > Note, you can simply specify laddr=<ip of interface> without the prefix
> > and I believe that will set both the transport and netbios name service
> > interfaces. I believe baddr will also be important.