[Samba] SuperSlow Browsing

[John H Terpstra]

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Dominik Wagenknecht wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I've set up a Samba-Server with WINS which should enhance networking
> around here. The situation is fairly simple:
>
> - Around 90 Student-PC's
> - Everything is in the net 10.1.2.0 / 255.255.255.0
>
> Till now everything worked more or less well without WINS (so the
> DHCP-Server just assigned IP/Gateway/DNS).
> Now I installed a samba machine and activated WINS-Server. The IP of
> the WINS Server is assigned through the DHCP:
>
> option netbios-name-servers 10.1.2.15;
> option netbios-node-type 2;

No way! You want netbios-node-type 8

By saying type 2, you are telling your MS Windows clients to ignore WINS!
You told them to use Broadcast based name resolution.

- John T.

>
> The WINS-Server seems to work perfectly (wins.dat and browse.dat are
> filled and correct), but when I start browsing through my Network
> Neighbourhood in XP I have to wait up to 30s till I see the machines in
> a certain workgroup. (and system is standing still....)
>
> these are the essential parts from smb.conf:
>
> # vorrangregelungen
>          local master = yes
>          domain master = yes
>          preferred master = yes
>          wins support = yes
> #       wins proxy = yes
> #       dns proxy = yes
>
> of course workgroup is set.
>
> Please Help if you can! (I'm already working on this since 2 days....)
>
> --Dominik Wagenknecht

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org