[Samba] logon problems
Shawn Henderson
shawn at techcoms.net
Mon Jul 5 18:25:37 GMT 2004
I thought that maybe it was a network problem. So I put 1 WS and the
> Samba server on a hub by themselves and it is still slow to logon
The problem may be your on a hub. As all the network traffic is
broadcasted. Try pulling a small switch from somewhere and see the
difference in speed. Also what is your wins configuration?
Just a thought
Scott Mayo wrote:
> I am really not sure if this is a samba problem or what, but is starting
> to annoy me. Here is what is happening.
>
> Server 1: Squid,squidguard,dansguardian,iptables (This is firewall/filter)
> Server2: Samba (used for file storage and squid authentification)
> Clients are Windows 98. A few XP's.
>
> Everything has run fine for almost 2 years. The other day when trying
> to log on to the internet, it would wait about 20 seconds and return me
> to my logon prompt. This was for almost every user. I have one generic
> user that got on all the time. Another user started getting on after
> about 5 tries and was then able to authenticate each time. The rest
> still did not authenticate.
>
> When I do:
> smb_auth -W DOMAIN -p sambasip -d
> it makes it to the last and gives an ERR when giving the contents of
> //server/netlogon/proxyauth. All the rights are correct and it contains
> the word allow, nothing has changed this for 2 years so it should be
> correct.
>
> When I do:
> echo "more proxyauth" | smbclient //server/netlogon -U user
> It gives me the contents of proxyauth fine.
>
> I have also noticed that logons start to slow down during the day. First
> thing in the morning they are fast, but then a little later it will take
> about 25 seconds before running my logon scripts. School is out, so
> there are only about 5 people actually here, so it is not bogging down
> the network. I ran a sniffer and all the traffic looks alright. My
> authentification will work for a while and then later in the day, it
> will stop again. I take authentification out of squid and then
> everything gets on the net fine.
>
> I thought that maybe it was a network problem. So I put 1 WS and the
> Samba server on a hub by themselves and it is still slow to logon. I
> thought that maybe it was the NIC, but I realized that SSHing into my
> firewall has slowed down also. So this makes me wonder exactly what is
> going on. If anyone has any ideas of what to look at, I would greatly
> appreciate any advice.
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