smb workgroup detection takes too long
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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samba (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm Running Kubuntu Edgy within a Windows workgroup, with samba set up correctly to browse shared folders on a Windows server. However, after I reboot Kubuntu, browsing to "smb:/" in Konqueror results in the error:
"Unable to find any workgroups in your local network. This might be caused by an enabled firewall."
Although browsing straight to "smb://servername" works well.
If I then wait, and hit refresh every couple of minutes, I still get the error each time, but after 40 minutes or so a final refresh shows the workgroup correctly, and from then on it works well.
Since it's obviously possible to detect the workgroup successfully, as it does after waiting for a while, whatever it does to get things working should be activated on-demand the moment "smb:/" is accessed, rather than waiting for it to happen elsewhere (eventually).
(I don't know if this is relevant or not, but I'm connected to the LAN via a wireless connection, which is enabled manually after bootup completes - so there's no connectivity during the boot process).
Changed the package to samba.