[KLUG Members] Samba client vs. WinXPee

[Greg Mason]

everything else on this network works just fine, just the fileserver 
connectivity issues. From what I've gathered, it looks to be something 
with taking a long time to verify against the domain controller. But 
the thing I don't get is even if that's the case, Samba on *nix is 
instantaneously connected. the way I connect on XPee is using the run 
dialog box: '\\comet(the file server)\username$" I have tried the 
"netuse" command, and it plain didn't work from XPee (but that machine 
also had an older VPN client, so that might have been an issue as well)

they have taken steps on the network to block certain subnets from 
others, for instance, the VPN is on 10.48, but everything that's 
land-based is on 10.10 (or 10.18). Comet is the only server available 
from the wireless network (besides web servers for various things)

For a windoze network, they have made it quite secure here, with 
various Cisco appliances.

-Greg

On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 08:05  PM, Dirk Bartley wrote:

> 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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