[jcifs] SmbFile.listFiles() on own server takes a long time

[Michael B. Allen]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:12:06 +1000
"Kid Kalanon" <kid_kalanon at hotmail.com> wrote:

> > > >
> > > >This is a name service lookup timeout. If you ex.printStackTrace()
> > > >you'll see that it's failing to lookup host4.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes, it did time out but it wouldn't have thrown an exception.  It would 
> >go
> > > on to the next thing in the resolve order - the default was RESOLVER_DNS 
> >and
> > > the call to InetAddress.getByName was successful.  So the call to 
> >listFiles
> > > was actually successful but it took a long time.
> >
> >Then    it    would    have    returned   right   away.   You   must   have
> >resolveOrder=BCAST,DNS  at  least  because  it's  trying  (and  failing) to
> >resolve the name using BCAST first.
> >
> 
> Ok, I tried the setting "-Djcifs.resolveOrder=DNS,BCAST" and now it's much 
> faster!  I've just found the documentation for this, which I probably should 
> have read earlier.
> 
> >
> >This  is  timing out on the broadcast lookup and they getting Access denied
> >trying  to  list  shares.  Relax  your permissions or use an account on the
> >machine.  You  could use the jcifs.netbios.lmhosts option to get around the
> >broadcast  failure  (although it is strange that it's failing to respond to
> >that).
> >
> 
> Setting lmhosts is not appropriate for me bacause it is expected to run on 
> networks without the lmhosts setup.

If this is a common phenomenon for which nothing can be done using
existing parameters I suppose it would be appropriate to atrifically
populate the name service cache with the local hostname (or a good guess
of it) on startup. Bit of a hack but it would do the trick.

> 
> Yes, the last example I sent did fail with authentication error.  I seemd to 
> have oversimplified it so the log won't be so long but it also produced a 
> different result.  Before the authentication error though, there was a name 
> lookup that did time out.
> 
> ... but my problem is solved now, and I'm happy! Thanks.
> 
> Kid.
> 
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