libsmbclient.so speed

[Allen, Michael B (RSCH)]

Since your program is running in the nagios  environment libsmbclient is probably failing
to find some configuration data that results in a timeout. Just a guess though.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alistair Hopkins [SMTP:alistair at berthengron.co.uk]
> Sent:	Thursday, May 08, 2003 11:05 AM
> To:	smb-clients at lists.samba.org
> Subject:	libsmbclient.so speed
> 
> 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
> 
>