[Samba] XP client awfully slow

[Jon Gerdes]

Gerald

On the XP box, fire up a command prompt and do:

ipconfig /all

You should see something like:
======================================
Windows IP Configuration

        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : NODDY
        Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . : gkn-whl.co.uk
        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Peer-Peer
        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : gkn-whl.co.uk
     
Ethernet adapter eh1:

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : gkn-whl.co.uk
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) Advanced Network Services Virtual Adapter #9
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-08-C7-D2-F0-8A
        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.21.50.81
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 172.21.0.1
        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.18.12.1
        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.21.12.1
                                            172.18.12.1
                                            192.168.255.254
        Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 172.16.40.1
        Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 19 July 2002 15:16:01
        Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 27 July 2002 09:30:01
======================================

Now I am using DHCP assigned addresses.  You may not be so yours maybe a bit different.  Now, do you have an entry for the Primary WINS server ?  If so, is the Linux box registered with it ?  Check smb.conf for a line:

wins server = <ip address of WINS server>

Right, check it:

nbtstat -a <name of Samba box>

The response should be almost instantaneous.  If it isn't then name resolution/WINS server isn't right.

A quick check of the WINS server can be done by (on Linux box):

#nmblookup -R -U <ip of WINS> <ip of Samba box>

(man nmblookup for details on the switches)

If all of this seems a little confusing, it's because it is !!!  If this doesn't help, could you send me:

IP of WINS server
smb.conf from Samba
Output of ipconfig /all from XP

Incidently, have a look at:
http://www.m85.com/techdocs/xptweaks.html

I have dramatically lowered the amount of memory my XP Pro uses and it still works fine with NT/2000/NetWare and Samba.  There's some good advice in there but go easy, you may go a little far so keep a log of what you do ...

Cheers
Jon Gerdes



>>> Gerald Heinig <gheinig at syskonnect.de> 22/07/2002 12:59:12 >>>
Hi all,

please excuse my posting what is probably an FAQ, but getting the mail
archives is excruciatingly slow (~70 bytes/sec).

I have an XP professional box attached to a Samba server. It works
ok-ish (I can actually access everything) but everything is painfully
slow. Attaching a network drive takes at least 10 seconds, sometimes
longer. Word takes AGES to load (> 15 seconds before anything happens)
and I can't save files to a network driver within Word; I have to "save
as" to a local disk and then copy over to the network drive.
Strangely enough, even accessing stuff on a _local_ drive is slow with a
network connection, although I'm not actually writing to the network
drive.
Our admin says we have a WINS server running (for what it's worth...).

Could some kind soul enlighten me as to what might be the problem? It's
no fun trying to work like this :-(

Cheers,

Gerald

PS. Is there any mailing list archive that's searchable, or a mailing
list archive mirror? The main site is glacially slow from here.

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