after upgrade from 3.0.7 -> 3.0.14 extrem slow access from wi ndows 2000 clients

[Stefanos Karasavvidis]

Stefanos Karasavvidis wrote:

>Torsten Kalix wrote:
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>>Hmmm,,, freezing -- did you try to dis-able op-locks on the samba 
>>server?  We have got a similar problem once and again deleting files.
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>I'll try that as soon as the clients get idle, but this isn't really an 
>option.
>I don't understand either why the roaming profiles are not working 
>(again only from w2k). The only note on this I could find was related to 
>a SP2 problem... and I have of course installed all SPs
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>Stefanos
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disabling oplocks makes no difference, too...

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>>-- Torsten.
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>>Stefanos Karasavvidis wrote:
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>>>Hello list,
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>>>sorry for crossposting but there was no feedback from the samba list and
>>>tomorrow (Monday) everything has to work...
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>>>A samba server serves the home directories for about 100 Windows 2000
>>>clients.
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>>>We had samba 3.0.7 (on debian woody, kernel 2.6.7) installed, and 
>>>upgraded
>>>to 3.0.14a (we
>>>used the sernet packages on debian sarge, kernel 2.6.8).
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>>>Now access to files from windows 2000 clients is extremely slow, 
>>>especially
>>>on .exe files. Simply selecting a exe file from windows explorer may 
>>>freeze
>>>it for 2-10 seconds. Other file types are not affected that much, 
>>>although
>>>their access is slow, too.
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>>>We have also some XP workstations, and they work just fine!
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>>>I have disabled antivirus on the clients with no change, although this
>>>seemed for me to be the root cause.
>>>As a side note, roaming profiles do not work either on windows 2000, 
>>>whereas
>>>on winXP there is no problem! I saw a description of this problem but 
>>>this
>>>affected SP2 on windows 2000, and it did require to disable acl 
>>>support for
>>>the profile share (no go for this)..
>>>Our windows clients have all service packs and hotfixes installed.
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>>>Help?!
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>>>Stefanos Karasavvidis
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