[Samba] Initial connection after reboot is sluggish

[Joseph Loo]

Do you start samba as a daemon orthrough inet?

Dean Richardson wrote:

> 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
>
>

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Joseph Loo
jloo at acm.org