[Samba] Samba PDC problem: Please help me avoid a mutiny! :-)

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 15:51, Ray Simard wrote:
> I've been beating my head against this one and just can't figure it out. I 
> hope someone here may have an answer. The employees using the workstations on 
> this network are getting increasingly upset with this problem.
> 
> The problem is wildly varying logon and logoff times over the network. This is 
> definitely not a matter of long profile transfers. An individual can log onto 
> a workstation one time and get on quickly, and another time, have to wait 
> five minutes or more. There is no apparent pattern that I can discern. No 
> workstations seem to manifest this problem more than others; no users seem to 
> have more difficulty with this than others; it seems to make no difference if 
> the user has logged onto a particular station before, or even if he/she's 
> logged onto another station at the same time.

> The manifestation is, in nearly all cases, that the PDC sends a message to the 
> workstation and waits for a response.

This protocol doesn't usually work like that.  SMB is (for all cases
except oplocks) a client-initiated protocol - the client is always
waiting for the server.

What message/reply do you think the server is waiting for?

Andrew Bartlett

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Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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