Samba - slow browsing/folder opening

[John P]

Hi All

I have recently started Samba on our Linux RedHat 7 server (P3-1000/512MB
with hardware SCSI RAID-1 on a Ultra-160 Adaptec card) - to serve about 15
Win9X PC's (replacing an overused Win95 machine's D drive!)

The only thing is, users have started to complain that opening folders from
their Win9X machines is much slower than it was before - i.e. there is a
noticable delay between clicking on a folder and it being loaded (three/four
seconds) whereas before (opening from the network-shared Win95 machine), it
was pretty much instant.

Any ideas? What do I need to post? All user directories are mounted in their
Linux user directories (/home/user/samba/..)

Samba 2.0.7 / Kernel 2.2.16-22

Cheers
John