[KLUG Members] Samba client vs. WinXPee

[Dirk Bartley]

Check dns.  I had windows machines a while back that had ip addresses of
dns servers where the dns server was unable to be seen through a
firewall.  If it is receiving an domain name server from dhcp, can it
communicate with it?  Do you have dns servers hard coded in the windows
ip configuration?  Can you listen with ethereal and see what it may be
waiting for?  Every time a machine sits and times out, I check dns
first.

All apologies if I am mentioning something already checked.

Dirk

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 15:50, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > 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?
> 
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Dirk Bartley <bartleyd2@chartermi.net>