libsmbclient.so speed

[Alistair Hopkins]

Afternoon,

I have written a little C program to use libsmbclient.so an a RH8 linux box
to check the status of files on a series of remote (Win2k) computers.  It's
actually to run as a Nagios monitoring plugin.

The steps I take are:
	smbc_init(get_auth_data,  0)
then
	smbc_opendir(logdir)
then I iterate through the dirents and get the information I need.

logdir is a samba URL of type smb://192.168.1.1/share/my/dir/path/

The script reliably produces the correct result.  However, the smbc_opendir
is incredibly slow - 10 seconds or more when the box is on my LAN - I get a
far faster result using smbclient with -c to list the directory.

This kind of defeats the object, which is to be nice to my monitoring
server.

Is this because the smb.conf I have in ~/.smb/ is empty?  I can't see that
any of the options in the example smb.conf files are relevant to
libsmbclient.so.  And is it true that there's a smbclient.conf file you can
use?  Google has two pages of references, but they seem to be for specific
applications and I can't find any generic documentation.

Or should I be using the context stuff?  Or even the cli_open as used in the
smbclient.c?  testsmb.c doesn't use them, so I just copied that...

Help much appreciated...

Thanks,

Al