[Samba] Win2000 - Very Slow opening files from Samba Share

[Bill Moran]

Tony McArthur wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I hope you can be of some assistance.
>
>I am using Samba 2.2.0 on SCO Open Server 5.0.5.
>I have a number of various clients on the Network eg Win 98 and Win 2000.
>
>My Unix Server is a PIII 1000, dual CPU computer with dual Raid 1 (mirroring
>disks)
>
>Samba is working well from the Win 98 Machines.
>
>However, from the Win 2000 machines when I try to open an Excel file from
>one of the Shared Samba drives for example it takes about 2 minutes to open.
>The same file only takes a couple of seconds to open from the local C drive.
>
>Are there some settings I need to set in the SMB.CONF file to cope with the
>mirroring.
>
>I hope someone out there can help.
>
>Tony McArthur
>
>
I saw this happen on a FreeBSD server.  The solution was to add 
TCP_NODELAY to
the socket options in smb.conf.

I don't have any evidence, but I also suspect that this could be caused 
by name resolution.
You may want to verify the setup of your WINS/DNS.