[Samba] Windows XP slow with samba-2.2.7 from RH7.3

[Gémes Géza]

Francesc Guasch írta:

> Hi.
>
> I posted last week a question about a network with some XP PCs.
> One PC connects fine to the samba server, but the other one
> is quite slow, almost unusable. There are also Win98 hosts
> running fine.
>
>
> Someone kindly answered he had the same problem, and solved it
> upgrading to samba-3 beta. I can't put beta software on this
> server.
>
> Do I have any other option ?
>
> Here is an extract of the smb.conf file:
>
> [global]
>    socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>    local  master = no
>    domain master = no
>    preferred master = no
>    dns proxy = no
>
> All the other is set by default.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
Hasn't accidentaly the slow XP machine got multiple network interfaces?, 
check with ipconfig /all in a command prompt, I've had that problem with 
a software wich created virtual network interfaces, and the XP's SMB 
code wants to check all of them before giving any answer.

Good Luck!

Geza Gemes