[Samba] Poor performance when accessing Linux from Windows XP because of too many QUERY_FILE_INFO requests

[Xia, Arandar]

> Sorry, but that's most likely just Windows behaviour.
Thanks for your reply.
Do you know why Windows sends so many same requests? What does it want to get on earth?
I also tried on Windows Vista, the requests are much less.

The file attributes are different between Linux and Windows XP, so I guess that this is probably because the attributes the Samba server responds to the client can not meet the client's request fully. 
I am not familiar with Samba, so I am not sure whether my guess is reasonable.

> Are you sure that it is that that makes access slow?
An action to get attributes of the file is needed for each request and there are so many requests.
I think it is the reason why my Samba server is slow.

-----Original Message-----
From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE] 
Sent: 2009年4月27日 16:33
To: Xia, Arandar
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Poor performance when accessing Linux from Windows XP because of too many QUERY_FILE_INFO requests

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:48:43PM +0800, Xia, Arandar wrote:
> This problem makes the access to my samba server be very slow.
> Could anyone help me to find the reason and give a solution?

Sorry, but that's most likely just Windows behaviour. Are
you sure that it is that that makes access slow?

Volker