Samba Performance

[Edmund Featherstone]

I have been testing out Samba as a possible replacement for our current Netware 
4.11 server and I am a bit puzzled by certain performance aspects. I have Samba 
shares on a Suse 7.3 box running Samba 2.2.1a and the performance seemed to be 
fine but I noticed that when I opened Word or Excel files there was a 10-12 
second delay before the data was loaded. When I switched my client from Windows 
NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 the delay seemed to go away till I found that though the 
data came up immediately I still didn't get back control of the mouse for about 
10-12 seconds. I then tried opening the same files using OpenOffice and the 
file loaded in less than a second so I don't think that it can be Samba. 
Unfortunately our standard Office suite is Microsoft Office97/2000 so I need to 
find out what is going on. Is this a known issue or has anyone else seen this 
behaviour?

Edmund Featherstone
IT Support Manager
4th Floor Adelphi
Ext 28614 GTN 391
044-20-7962 8614
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