Samba ist very slow
Tarjei Huse
tarjei at nu.no
Thu Nov 1 12:05:09 GMT 2001
This could be a wins/dns problem. check that dns & wins lookups are working
properly on your machine.
Tarjei
mjorda at berlitz.de wrote:
>
> Hello list members,
>
> ist' really a pain in the neck ..... running samba as PDC and
> everything is working fine but ... if a user tries to open a Word,
> Excel, PDF etc. document by double clicking on the file in the
> explorer it take 30 to 50 seconds to open a 5 kb file. This is not
> always like that but mostly - very strange. With explorer and copy I
> don't have that problem.
> I found in a news group a solution. They said, the caus of the prob
> is an incorrerctly defaulted parameter, which affects programs
> opening files but does not affect copying files with explorer. So,
> they recommended to put 4 lines in the smb.conf to solve the prob.
>
> lock directory = /var/spool/locks/samba
> share modes = yes
> oplocks = true
> locking = yes
>
> I did that but the prob was not solved.
>
> Has anybody any idea to get rid of that. I mean I'm not the only
> person in the world trying to open files by double clicking them whit
> samba. Maybe someone had that prob and solved it.
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> Manfred
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