Downloading Profiles/Policies (slow connection)
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at switchboard.net
Fri Apr 23 20:03:17 GMT 1999
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Eric Mercer wrote:
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Dejan Ilic wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Wolfgang Ratzka wrote:
> > >
> > > > Nuno Loureiro wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > But in my case is 10BaseT, so we should never get this message :/
> > > >
> > > > I get the message when I store user profiles on a samba server.
> > > > My interpretation is that the authentication process is taking
> > > > very long (we have ~9000 users in /etc/passwd) and therefore
> > > > samba has a slow start, which leads NT to expect (quite wrongly ;-)
> > > > overal slow performance..
> > >
> > > Suspecting the same problem here. About 17000 accounts on samba.
> >
> > well, you could always use Benjamin Kuit's new mysql code!!!
>
> This may be a dead issue, but I may have some information to add.
>
> We were experiencing this problem with about 8 of 16 NT workstations.
> The PDC is an Ultra Enterprise 2 running Solaris 2.5.1 and Samba
> downloaded via CVS on September 22nd. Although we only have 95 users,
> we tried reducing the size of the smbpasswd file. That made no
> difference. We continued having the trouble until one of the
> administrators noticed a lot of browser elections.
>
> We found that several of the newer NT machines had been added to the
> domain with Netware installed. They have been electing themselves
> master browsers on their little IPX network. After removing the Client
> Service for Netware and the NWLink IPX/SPX Transport, the "slow
> connection" problem has disappeared.
you only had to disable "NetBIOS over IPX/SPX" that would do it.
yes, IPX/SPX NetBIOS is _dog_ slow, and causes delays of up to a minute in
resolving names etc. ONE machine on the entire WAN becomes a LOCAL master
browser and resolution of names is done by multicast. absolutely horrible
*shudder*.
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