[Samba] Fixed (sort of): Re: Samba -> XP. Slow log in/out

[Robert S]

I don't know how this worked, but if I point "My Documents" to
\\SERVER\homes everything seems to be OK.  I still don't know why
\\SERVER\robert bombed out.  I'd be interested to know why.

"Robert S" <robert_s at emailme.net.au> wrote in message
news:bsl7mn$in4$1 at sea.gmane.org...
> I have a server running slackware 9.1 and samba samba-2.2.8a and have
WinXP
> Home (SP1) on a client machine.  I have all of my users "My documents"
> pointing at a subdirectory of their home directories (ie.
> /home/USER/.documents).  All of the users are able to use this with no
> problems EXCEPT me.  When I log in to my user profile in Windows, the
system
> tray takes about 5 minutes to load up.  If I try to log out it hangs for
> about 5 minutes during this time.  I am able to prevent this behaviour by
> pointing "My Documents" to a folder on the local (C:) hard drive and not
> using my samba share.  Also - when I right-click on "My Documents" (in
XP),
> go to "Properties" and change "Target" to \\SERVER\robert, it hangs for
ages
> when I press Apply or OK.  I recently reinstalled my entire XP hard drive
> and this problem still ocurs.  Presumably its not an XP setup problem.
> Upgrading samba to 3.0.0 makes no difference.
>
> My user name is robert, the client computer is called CLIENT and the
server
> is called SERVER (the names are fictitious).
>
> Sorry about putting a Windows question on a Unix newsgroup, but the aim of
> samba is to allow these systems to speak to each other!
>
> My /var/log/samba/CLIENT.log looks like this (as you can see there are
some
> strange entries that are specific to my user name (they don't apply to
other
> users):
>
> [2003/12/28 11:03:31, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(252)
>   CLIENT (192.168.2.20) couldn't find service robert.dll
> [2003/12/28 11:10:57, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_printername_ok(388)
>   Unable to get printer status for rober - client-error-not-found
> [2003/12/28 11:10:57, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(252)
>   CLIENT (192.168.2.20) couldn't find service rober
> [2003/12/28 11:10:57, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_printername_ok(388)
>   Unable to get printer status for robert.dll - client-error-not-found
> [2003/12/28 11:10:57, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(252)
>   CLIENT (192.168.2.20) couldn't find service robert.dll
>
> Here are the relevant parts of my smb.conf:
>
> [global]
>         workgroup = HOME
>         netbios name = SERVER
>         server string = Samba Server
>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>         log level = 0
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>         lock dir = /var/lock/samba
>         printing = cups
>         printcap name = cups
>         invalid users = root
>         browseable = No
> [homes]
>         comment = Home Directories
>         path = /home/%S/.documents
>         read only = No
>         create mask = 0700
>         directory mask = 0700
>
>
>
>
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