[KLUG Members] Samba client vs. WinXPee

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>is there a way to turn down some timeouts, or anything else to reduce 
>the overhead (short of installing LInux on a person's machine that 
>isn't mature enough to be "enlightened")

The drag is initial,  he didn't indicate that performance was worse once started.  

Samba and WinXP have different name-space defaults, WinXP probably has to fail
out of its first couple of tries - indicating that the DHCP server isn't shoving
down a sufficiently detailed configuration.  I've seen this more than a couple
of times.

Also make sure you don't have one of those retarded firewall apps running in
your sys-tray.

Try disabling "Simple File Sharing" on the XP client.  Why this affects bieng a
client?  Beats the hell out of me, and there happens to be alot of hell in me,
so that takes awhile.

> is there a way to install Samba on windows, and use that instead of 
> window's built-in SMB/CIFS implementation?

Ethereal will demonstrate that the number of RPC calls placed by a Samba client
and an Win32sinceNT4 client are roughly the same.

>>>well, got a question:
>>>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?