network resources

[Welsh, Armand]

WINS/DNS, and other stuff like that, won't help your ping times.  The only
way to improve your ping time, is to determine what is slowing it down.    I
suggest you check the network port your linux box is connected to, to verify
that you are not receiving excessive collisions, or excessive line chatter.
I would also suggest trying to swap your network interface cards, and such.
Of course, make sure your server is on a switch, not a hub, so that traffic
to the server is limited to only server bound traffic.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Charles Crawford [mailto:ccrawford at atsengineers.com]
-> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 5:58 AM
-> To: Samba Listserve (E-mail)
-> Cc: Samba-Ntdom Listserve (E-mail); Samba-Technical 
-> Listserve (E-mail)
-> Subject: network resources
-> 
-> 
-> Hi, 
-> 
-> I'm having problems getting Samba shares to respond quickly 
-> enough to not
-> time-out on our NT network.
-> 
-> I've got a login script that creates a mapped drive to a 
-> share, but it tells
-> me that the server is not responding and that I might not have enough
-> network resources available to make the connection.
-> 
-> The systems that run Samba are all Red Hat Linux 6.1 
-> systems, with Samba
-> 2.0.5a-12 on one, and Samba 2.0.7-4 on the other. I don't 
-> think that this is
-> a Samba issue directly, but it is causing some difficulty 
-> and is causing
-> concern among management in regards to the effective use of 
-> Samba in our
-> networking environment.
-> 
-> Once the connection is made, which sometimes takes several 
-> login attempts,
-> there appear to be no problems. One item worth noting, 
-> however, is that
-> pinging any of the Linux machines brings a response time 2 
-> times that of the
-> Windows machines. I've made sure that the IP addresses are 
-> included in the
-> WINS database, the host and lmhost files, and in the Server Manager.
-> 
-> The names resolve to the correct machines, but sometimes the 
-> connection is
-> very slow. I'm starting to think that Linux is misconfigured 
-> to allow a
-> small number of network connections, or that the switches 
-> are bottle-necking
-> the network connections. Anyone have any ideas?
-> 
-> Charlie Crawford, 
-> ccrawford at atsengineers.com
->