Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [question] implentation of smb-browsing: kernel space or user space? | Date | 19 Jan 2002 14:01:45 -0800 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201191313170.4434-100000@cola.teststation.com> By author: Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > I think that using the smb-file-system with a user-space mounter like > > mkautosmb has the problem of bad scalability in large networks, because it > > scans the whole network before you can access one share. > > You don't need to scan on every access. You could run the scanner only if > it was more than x minutes since the last scan. You could run the scanner > independently of any attempts to access autofs. >
There is probably no need to even do that. SMB contains a browser list protocol, and Samba (nmbd) can participate in it. You should be able to read it out of there.
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