samba - Apr 2008 - Browsing Samba shares slow when server has no DNS access

Hi all,

I've got a problem where the browsing of shares is very slow (30 sec to 
open a share) if the Samba server has no access to dns servers. The 
result is every time the internet goes down, no one can do any work on 
their local network files. How can I stop this from happening?

Cheers

Andreas

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Andreas Baitis <abaitis@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I've got a problem where the browsing of shares is very slow (30 sec
to
> open a share) if the Samba server has no access to dns servers. The result
> is every time the internet goes down, no one can do any work on their local
> network files. How can I stop this from happening?
>
One way is to install your own dns server. dnrd is very easy to
install and setup. I actually install this on most linux client
machines because it takes the load off my main dns servers. The other
way is to figure out why needing a dns name to be resolved is
happening on your local network and preventing communication between
samba and your clients.

John