[Samba] Slow Windows XP shared browsing.

[John H Terpstra]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Matthew Scarrow wrote:

> I've got this problem on xp machines where when you are trying to browse a
> shared drive it takes a realy long time to view it but once you have
> connected your off and running. Is there a way I can get this to speed up.
> People are complaining that there system is freezing when the try and browse
> the shared folder. They just don't give it enough time to get connected.
>
> Anyone got an answer for this. I've tried updating to the latest version of
> samba but that didn't fix the problem. Thanks for any help.

Configure WINS correctly! Refer
http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf chapter 10.

- John T.

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> Matthew Scarrow
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John H Terpstra
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