[KLUG Members] Samba client vs. WinXPee

[Jim C]

My theory:

I run a Samba-LDAP PDC here on my home net.  What I've noticed is that 
Windows actually keeps files on both the server and the client and 
synchronizes them.  Probably does this using a tool similar to rsync.  This 
happens on the client side not the server side so a Linux box that logs in 
may exhibit different behavior accounting for the differences.

> 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?



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Jim C.