[Samba] Initial connection after reboot is sluggish

[Dean Richardson]

As a daemon at startup.

At 06:25 AM 3/6/2002 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote:
>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
>>
>>
>>
>
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>Joseph Loo
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