[Samba] smbclient is SLOW!

[ToddAndMargo]

On 08/20/2016 04:57 AM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 04:21:07 -0700
> ToddAndMargo via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On 08/20/2016 01:35 AM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>>> On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 23:40:45 -0700
>>> ToddAndMargo via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 08/16/2016 12:52 AM, ToddAndMargo via samba wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> Fedora Core 24, x64
>>>>> samba-4.4.5-1.fc24.x86_64
>>>>>
>>>>> smbclient -L 127.0.0.1
>>>>>
>>>>> is very, very slow.  It comes back correctly, but takes 20
>>>>> seconds. One another Samba server (Scientific Linux 7.2), it comes
>>>>> back in under a second.
>>>>>
>>>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>> -T
>>>>>
>>>> Figured it out.
>>>>
>>>> I had to add my server's name into 127.0.0.1 on /etc/hosts
>>>>
>>>> mumble mumble mumble
>>>>
>>> If you had to do that, you have other problems, 127.0.0.1 shouldn't
>>> resolv to your hostname.
>>>
>>> Rowland
>>>
>> I have found I have to do that if I am not running bind
>>
> I take it this is a home network, various PCs and a router as a
> gateway to the internet, if so does the router also act as a DHCP
> server and your PCs all get their ipadresses etc from dhcp ?
>
> Rowland
>

It is a small business work group server.  It currently has
4 clients using Samba and 13 additional clients not using Samba,
but using other services from the server

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