Lisad instead of nautilus

[adrenaline]

I have been using Nautilus for network browsing. It works well when it works. but it is kind of unstable. I wan't to use Lisad but the man pages or kind of weak. Can anybody give me a brief explanation of LISAD and how to start it?
Thanks,
Mike

[Talion]

seems to be a TCP/IP Network Neibourhood type service,

take a peek at the home page seems easy enough,
http://lisa-home.sourceforge.net/

[Talion]

ok edit the /etc/lisarc file
then run /usr/bin/lisa

e.g mine is the default except for the network address/ mask
PingAddresses = 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0;
PingNames =
AllowedAddresses = 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0;
BroadcastNetwork = 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0;
SearchUsingNmblookup = 1
FirstWait = 30
SecondWait = -1
UpdatePeriod = 150
DeliverUnnamedHosts = 1
MaxPingsAtOnce = 256

[adrenaline]

Do you use the lisad and is it stable?

[Talion]

No I dont use it, played with it a little, but seems when it's loaded I have network problems after about 2 hours, not really had a chance to work out if it's LISa causing the problem or if it's just a coicendence coz me slackware box is my dev machine and not std install.

Edit: network probs are a loss of connection, a straight reboot sorts the issue.

[Talion]

ok no luck for me, but it does appear it's not Slack or Fed2 thats casuing the problem but my router/gateway and LISa.

I have a Belin F5D5230-4 connecting 2 PC's to a cable setup Box,

while either machine is switched off and LISa started all is ok,
however when the other is booted, or if both booted; LISa started I get an ititail connection and can see all services on the network, after a short length of time( about 10 mins) the network stops responding, a restart of the router and shutting the LISa service sorts the problem.

at the mo i'm learing about MySQL so dont really have time to spare on the Root Cause.

[adrenaline]

So it seems that it is as inefficient as nautilus then. Is there something else other than those two? What does Red Hat use any idea?

[Talion]

RH/Fedora uses LISa also.

noticed in syslog while looking for something else it's when it's making a DHCP request my network connection goes down, makes the request - gets the address, then when trying to negociate eth1 goes down.

ii'll try using another nic. as both machines run Netgear nic's while I have a 3com avail !! and resLISa asI understand resLISa to be passive not active. I may be wrong

Have you tried using LISa ? it may just be my seup/hardware.

[adrenaline]

I have tried to configure it in the gui but coudn't figure out how to start the deamon. I saw on a post somewhere how to start it in the command line but I have forgotten now, but back when I did run it I found it to be unstable in that it worked fine then for no reason that I could figure out it would loose all the shares and if I restarted the service it woud come back up for a while then die again.

I think nautilus is a little more secure but it doesn't support drop and drag. It does to download but not to upload.