[Samba] XP clients & inexplicable pauses

[Paul Cochrane]

On 22 Oct 2002 at 21:26, Jeremy Wohl wrote:
> I recently upgraded two client/server pairs to WinXP and Samba 2.2.6
> (on Linux).
> 
> Browsing mounted shares causes hangs when right-clicking or double-clicking/
> launching files -- about 15 seconds.  During this, precious little network
> activity is occuring.  Something is hanging, locking, sleeping.

Do you have the netware client installed on these machines? This 
causes timeout problems when right clicking in explorer. There are 
workarounds to relieve this problem which I can explain if this is the 
case.

Paul
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