[Samba] WinXP slow share access

[James Northcott]

>Would you consider running tcpdump on the linux server to watch the
>interaction? I haven't noticed a slow access problem with XPpro, but I
>don't use authenticatation (security=share and guest=ftp and guest ok =
yes)
>Joel

OK, here's the output from tcpdump on the samba server.  I'm having
trouble with the smb-modified version, so this is just regular tcpdump.

07:56:21.841655 192.168.0.6.2062 > 192.168.0.77.netbios-ssn: S
2297483761:2297483761(0) win 64240 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK> (DF)
07:56:21.841700 192.168.0.77.netbios-ssn > 192.168.0.6.2062: S
2739553887:2739553887(0) ack 2297483762 win 3840 <mss
960,nop,nop,sackOK> (DF)
07:56:21.883584 192.168.0.6.2062 > 192.168.0.77.netbios-ssn: P 1:73(72)
ack 1 win 64320 (DF)
07:56:21.883616 192.168.0.77.netbios-ssn > 192.168.0.6.2062: . ack 73
win 3840 (DF)
07:56:21.887651 192.168.0.77.netbios-ssn > 192.168.0.6.2062: P 1:5(4)
ack 73 win 3840 (DF)
07:56:21.931247 192.168.0.6.2062 > 192.168.0.77.netbios-ssn: P
73:210(137) ack 5 win 64316 (DF)
07:56:21.933092 192.168.0.77.netbios-ssn > 192.168.0.6.2062: P 5:92(87)
ack 210 win 4824 (DF)
07:56:22.130539 192.168.0.6.2062 > 192.168.0.77.netbios-ssn: . ack 92
win 64229 (DF)
07:56:52.015829 192.168.0.6.2062 > 192.168.0.77.netbios-ssn: P
210:407(197) ack 92 win 64229 (DF)
07:56:52.024690 192.168.0.77.netbios-ssn > 192.168.0.6.2062: P
92:181(89) ack 407 win 5896 (DF)
07:56:52.203079 192.168.0.6.2062 > 192.168.0.77.netbios-ssn: . ack 181
win 64140 (DF)

I just don't see anything funny there.  I'm going to try running tcpdump
on my WinXP client and see what happens...


>On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:30:00PM -0500, James Northcott wrote:
>> My WinXP clients are able to map a network drive on my samba server.
>> However, it takes 30 seconds to do so, and accessing the contents of
the
>> shared drive is also quite slow.
>> 
>> Linux (smbclient) and Windows 2000 clients are able to map the share
>> instantly, and access files without delay.
>>