[Samba] Initial connection after reboot is sluggish

[Dean Richardson]

We have an SCO server running samba with the config file below. It is in 
the domain and users connect to shares on it without any issues. The SCO 
server is rebooted nightly. The problem is that we have a box that has a 
mapped drive connection which automatically deposits attachment files to 
the rmomin share from Outlook (using CaSaveAtt) and it fails on placing its 
first attachment to the samba drive. What seems to happen is that this 
first file wakes up the os and reestablishes the samba connection and all 
subsequent file deposits happen without incident, until the next evenings 
reboot. What is confusing is that this worked for many many months and then 
recently we upgraded to 2.2.3a and did not keep track of the changes we 
made to the smb.conf file so we dont know what we did to change it's 
behavior. There are no messages in the logs about a connection failure or 
even an event.

Any ideas?

[global]
         netbios name = UNIX1
         server string = Production Samba Server
         interfaces = 90.0.0.1 127.0.0.1
         security = DOMAIN
         encrypt passwords = Yes
         password server = ewcx2 ewcx3
         username map = /etc/smbusers
         log level = 1
         log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m
         load printers = No
         preferred master = False
         local master = No
         domain master = False
         dns proxy = No
         guest account = guest
         create mask = 0777
         directory mask = 0777
         hosts allow = 90.0. 192.168. 127.

[rmoxout]
         comment = Unix Share
         path = /share2/rmoxout
         valid users = alw root  rmoe
         read only = No

[rmomin]
         comment = Unix Share
         path = /share2/rmomin
         valid users = alw root rmoe
         read only = No


Dean Richardson
800 West Queen Creek Road
Apt. 2087
Chandler, AZ 85248-3315
Ph: 480 659 1097
Email: Richardson at wsg.net