[Samba] Windows XP hang

Glen Gibb grg at ridley.unimelb.edu.au
Mon Sep 9 09:46:00 GMT 2002


Hi Jurgen,

I've spent many many hours on the same problem, and have finally managed
to solve the problem...

It appears that WinXP tries to do some sort of authentication via WebDAV
as well as smb. Try disabling the webclient service on your XP box and see
if things improve.

Hope this helps
Glen Gibb

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, [iso-8859-1] J=FCrgen R=FCther wrote:

> Hallo!
>
> We are using linux (Suse 8.0) with samba 2.2.3a as a file server with
> several Windows-Clients.
>
> When I'm using a Windows XP Prof. client to access a file on the linux fi=
le
> server I'm waiting several minutes sometimes.
>
> Could you please tell me, how to configure the Windows-Client respectivil=
y
> samba to avoid this problem?
>
> Sincerely
>
> J=FCrgen
>
>
>
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