[Samba] [Q] Why does it take so long for XP to logon?

[Maurice Volaski]

If I login to our Samba box (RedHat 7.1 + 2.4.20) under Windows 2K 
via Start->Run->share name, I get logged in almost immediately. It 
averages about 25 seconds under XP. This behavior has been true in 
various versions of Samba since I believe XP was available and is 
reproducible on every (several) Windows 2K/XP boxes I have tried. 
This is a workgroup environment with Samba acting as master browser. 
It doesn't matter whether the share is referenced as an IP address or 
NetBIOS name.

Other keywords: login delay logon delay no response wait long delay 
Windows 2000 Windows XP
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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski at aecom.yu.edu
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University