[Samba] WinXP slow share access

[James Northcott]

>>My WinXP clients are able to map a network drive on my samba server.
>>However, it takes 30 seconds to do so

>I don't recognize the problem, offhand, but I'd try cranking up the log
>level to 10 and try again.  The reason is that there is a 30 second
delay
>between the end of the protocol level negotiation and the beginning of
the
>first SMB transaction.  By cranking up the log level to the maximum,
you
>might find out what's going on during those 30 seconds...


OK, I've included a level 10 log excerpt.  It's not very exciting - the
Samba server transmits, and then XP waits 30 seconds before replying.

>Also, you might want to check the "nmbd" log file as well - there may
be
>something going on there.  Some people were experiencing DNS
reverse-lookup
>timeouts, and even though your smb.conf settings don't look like they
would
>cause this issue to occur, your description of the symptom sounds
similar.

I'm not using nmbd.  I don't require browsing to work on this server,
and I don't require broadcast name resolution for this to work since
I've added a static mapping in my WINS server.  Just for fun, I turned
on nmbd on my samba server - no dice, and nothing going on in the nmbd
log.  As near as I can tell, it's not even looking up the name via
broadcast.

>Hope that helps...


Level 10 log (I've left some blank lines to show where the delay
occurs):

[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(281)
  smb_tid=0
  smb_pid=65279
  smb_uid=0
  smb_mid=0
  smt_wct=17
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[0]=5 (0x5)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[1]=12803 (0x3203)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[2]=256 (0x100)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[3]=65280 (0xFF00)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[4]=255 (0xFF)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[5]=0 (0x0)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[6]=256 (0x100)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[7]=42240 (0xA500)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[8]=15 (0xF)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[9]=63744 (0xF900)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[10]=3 (0x3)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[11]=32768 (0x8000)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[12]=26843 (0x68DB)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[13]=46866 (0xB712)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[14]=49647 (0xC1EF)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[15]=11265 (0x2C01)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[16]=2049 (0x801)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(291)
  smb_bcc=14
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 10] lib/util.c:dump_data(1484)
  [000] 76 FF A5 D2 B9 6B 08 0E  41 52 49 45 53 00        v....k..
ARIES.
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 6] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(518)
  write_socket(13,87)
[2002/04/29 14:50:11, 6] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(521)
  write_socket(13,87) wrote 87




[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 10]
lib/util_sock.c:read_smb_length_return_keepalive(560)
  got smb length of 193
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 6] smbd/process.c:process_smb(859)
  got message type 0x0 of len 0xc1
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(860)
  Transaction 2 of length 197
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(275)
  size=193
  smb_com=0x73
  smb_rcls=0
  smb_reh=0
  smb_err=0
  smb_flg=24
  smb_flg2=18439
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(281)
  smb_tid=0
  smb_pid=65279
  smb_uid=0
  smb_mid=64
  smt_wct=13
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[0]=117 (0x75)
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[1]=158 (0x9E)
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[2]=65535 (0xFFFF)
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[3]=50 (0x32)
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[4]=0 (0x0)
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[5]=4005 (0xFA5)
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[6]=0 (0x0)
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[7]=24 (0x18)
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[8]=24 (0x18)
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[9]=0 (0x0)
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[10]=0 (0x0)
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[11]=212 (0xD4)
[2002/04/29 14:50:41, 5] lib/util.c:show_msg(286)
  smb_vwv[12]=0 (0x0)