[Samba] Windows XP Machines (well mostly the XP ones) hanging

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 07:20:47AM -0400, Shawn D. Kelly wrote:
> This may or may not help, but I've installed about 25 XP machines onto a W2K
> network and experienced the exact same thing - slowdown and then all of the
> sudden it's fine.  I don't believe it's a Samba thing, but an XP thing.
> Search google or your engine of choice for 'XP slow network' or something
> like that and you might get luckier.

Indeed. It looks like WinXP SP1 has some bad bugs w.r.t. oplock
processing.

See this page for details :

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=811492

Jeremy.