UNC vs Mapped Drive connection times

[Krishna Harathi]

I am still waiting to get more information including tcpdump from the customer.

This email thread appears to be somewhat related, but I did not find any follow-up responses. 
        https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2017-October/123611.html
Any comments on this?

Regards.
Krishna Harathi
 

On 7/28/20, 4:09 PM, "Krishna Harathi" <krishna.harathi at storagecraft.com> wrote:

    Yes, the same client connecting to the same server name/address both times within a few mins of each other.

    I will try to get tcpdump captures for both as well as DNS lookup times.

    Thanks.

    Regards.
    Krishna Harathi


    On 7/28/20, 3:24 PM, "Jeremy Allison" <jra at samba.org> wrote:

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        On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:21:12PM +0000, Krishna Harathi via samba-technical wrote:
        > We are using Samba 4.7.11.
        >
        > One of our customers is reporting that with Windows 7, 10 Explorer, connecting using Mapped Drive is taking 10 seconds are more compared to using a UNC path.
        >
        > I am not an expert in this area, and I started investigating the difference between the two methods to identify and improve any bottlenecks especially in the filesystem underneath Samba.
        >
        > Given the overwhelming number of variables/parameters in this context, I would very much appreciate this group’s collective expertise on pointing out any known issues to look out for.

        DNS/naming resolution lookup times ? Are they connecting to
        exactly the same name ?