[KLUG Members] Samba client vs. WinXPee

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> my school has a windows 2000 file server that has everybody's personal 
> "H: drive" (as it's called here). Over the wireless and Cisco VPN, my 
> Mac (os 10.2.6) and my linux machine (SuSE 8.2) both connect to the file 
> server instantly. when a windows XP machine is on the wireless, it takes 
> about 2 minutes or more to bring up the username/password prompt. I 
> talked to the IT department here, they don't think much can be done 
> about it. My question to your all is, why is Samba so much better over 
> the wireless here than windoze?

One possibility is the name name space being used.  

Are you acquiring DHCP leases from the central server?  If so what is
the netbios node type?  

Is "wins server = " set on your samba?  Does a wins value appear if you
do an ipconfig at the command line on the XP box?

Is your NetBIOS (WINS) and DNS name space unified?