Description of problem: When opening a samba mounted directory under windows running under vmware, the windows directory window searchs all the images in that directory and generates a little icon of the image in the file. The icon update process is very slow. Looking at the samba log file, I see a lot of socket errors being reported. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1.Fire up the windows system 2.open the samba mounted directory which contains large jpg files 3.watch it take for ever to populate the icons Actual results: Very slow icon population, lots of socket errors in samba log file. Expected results: Fast icon populat, no socket errors in samaba log file. Additional info:
Created attachment 140564 [details] samba log file
What Windows version? What Samba version? Is the samba server on the same host as the windows vmware image? If not how are the hosts interconnected? Is the eth card of the windows vmware image bridged? NATed? Routed? Are they both emulated or not?