[KLUG Members] SAMBA... problem or solution ....

[Robert G. Brown]

On 29 May 2003 06:27:23, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> wrote:

>> Problems are almost/completely non-existant on the slower clients,
>> almost constant on the fast ones. This is not a really pure test,
>> since the slower ones are '98SE, while the faster ones are XP, so
>> we can't completely factor out OS and specific drivers.
>Are they running logon scripts, or "hoping" the machine will remember
>what volumes to mount from the last login?  The later doesn't really
>work, if that is the case, switch to using logon scripts.

Oh, each client remebers, alright... they try to mountthe shares, and we get
an error box (I still don't like the "OK" button in those things, topic of
another thread) or little ballon (on XP) telling us the that "one or more disk 
shares could not be made" or words to that effect.

This is not to say that logon scripts are a bad idea, perhaps for other 
reasons, and they may, as a side effect, introduce the kind of delay I'm
mulling over. However, the basic notion that the clients don't "remember"
what they are going to share doesn't seem to apply here. It might be nice
to know a little bit more about what you mean by "doesn't really work".
....
>> 1. Have you seen this problem before? If so, is there a straightaway
>>    solution?
>Yes, when not using logon scripts.  Also seen it on hosts where DNS
>(name resolution) is really slow.
There's a DNS server on the LAN, milliseconds away.

>> 2. Do such timing/delay/retry control exist? On clients? On servers?
>Not that I've seen.
OK, that's fine.

>> 3. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Someone got a better tree?
>Does the site have working DNS?
As above, yes.

>Is the Samba server also a WINS server?
I wilcheck, but Itend to doubt it.

>It might be worth reordering name resolution mechanisms via
>"name resolve order".  Default is "lmhosts host wins bcast",  try
>changing to "lmhosts wins host bcast" if there is a WINS server around.
I will look into this.

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