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Well... I've built me a Gentoo machine with Samba and it's working pretty
good. Transfer times for large files pummel our NT file server.

There's a glitch (not a glitch) where usernames with dots aren't
appreciated, but I've found a manual workaround until I find the time to
tell my users to use a different username.

However, I can't seem to figure this itty-bitty problem out. For our
Windows users, I map a drive on logon with a Windows logon script like we do
with our Windows shares. There is a 5 second (approximate) delay while that
drive is mapping... and sometimes when I try to access the drive while
logged in there is another 5 second delay. It's not hardware because I had
the same model computer running a Windows share with no delay. I'm not
doing anything fancy with iptables and the machine is on the same subnet.

Is this normal behavior for a Linux/Samba machine participating in a Windows
NT domain or is there something I can do to eliminate the delay?

Here's smb.conf... (unrelated security/performance suggestions are welcome)

[global]
workgroup = MYWORKGROUP
netbios name = MYCOMPUTER
server string = MYWORKGROUP <- just noticed it's the same, is that bad?
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 2046
wins server = x.x.x.x
hosts allow = x.x.x.x/x
security = domain
password server = *
encrypt passwords = yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
os level = 0
domain master = no
local master = no
preferred master = no
; add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false %u
dns proxy = no

[share$]
comment = The Share
path = /share
read only = no

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gorf

Am Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:25:23 -0600 schrieb "gorf" <ask@for.it> :

> server string = MYWORKGROUP <- just noticed it's the same, is that
> bad?

I don't know, but this was the reason of another Problem on my Server,
the Client doesn't find the server and can't authorisation against him.


But now, after reading your post, i noticed the lag also.

Try to change it. ....

Perhaps it helps

good LUCK


Bye.
Gabor

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:25:23 -0600, gorf wrote:

> There is a 5 second (approximate) delay while that
> drive is mapping...

Reverse DNS problem, perhaps?

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"Tom Felker" <tcfelker@mtco.com> wrote in message
newsan.2003.10.30.04.23.05.505330@mtco.com...
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:25:23 -0600, gorf wrote:
>
> > There is a 5 second (approximate) delay while that
> > drive is mapping...
>
> Reverse DNS problem, perhaps?

I think I found the problem... I was building the machine behind a NAT
firewall. I moved it off when I was convinced it was ready, but the NAT
device and the Samba machine had the same netbios name (oops). I changed
that and the delay went away.

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gorf