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Pause using NFS when I open a folder

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Scott

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Dec 7, 2009, 2:04:31 PM12/7/09
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I've been using servicesforlinux nfs client for a while now, and it
has one HUGE annoyance. Nearly every time I go to open a file with any
program that uses a windows "open dialog" of some sort (File:Open in
most applications) I get a pause of about 10 seconds before the
directory will fill in the dialog. There's some timeout involved
because if I File:Open immediately again it'll go through but I wait a
few minutes the annoying pause will return.

I'm mounting my nfs shares with the mount command from a windows cmd
shell. I've tried each of the mount options (hard, soft, timeouts, tcp/
udp, retries, etc) to no avail.

I've verified that vista is *not* communicating with the server during
this pause by using tcpdump. There are no packets on the wire. Vista
is just sitting there doing nothing.

This has made the vista NFS client virtually unusable to me. There are
a few other threads describing the exact same problem in this forum,
but none of them have a resolution.

I should mention that using the command shell (the DOS-looking thing)
does not incur these pauses. It's only applications that use a
File:Open dialog of some sort.

Corinna Vinschen

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Dec 8, 2009, 5:45:12 PM12/8/09
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Scott wrote:
> I've been using servicesforlinux nfs client for a while now, and it
> has one HUGE annoyance. Nearly every time I go to open a file with any
> program that uses a windows "open dialog" of some sort (File:Open in
> most applications) I get a pause of about 10 seconds before the
> directory will fill in the dialog. There's some timeout involved
> because if I File:Open immediately again it'll go through but I wait a
> few minutes the annoying pause will return.
>
> I'm mounting my nfs shares with the mount command from a windows cmd
> shell. I've tried each of the mount options (hard, soft, timeouts, tcp/
> udp, retries, etc) to no avail.
>
> I've verified that vista is *not* communicating with the server during
> this pause by using tcpdump. There are no packets on the wire. Vista
> is just sitting there doing nothing.

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/171386
If you don't need DFS, try to set DisableDFS to 1. It should avoid
the delay (8 seconds in my experience).


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat

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