[Samba] very low speed local network browsing from win xp clients

[Buda Gábor]

Hi There!


Thank You for your very quick help. It's nice to see that are so helpfull
people in the world of linux. Thanks!

I changed my network card's settings to 'half-duplex' on my win XP, but the
machines in the workgroup (and the workgrup 'vorosko' too) appearing very
slow (10-15 seconds). It' the same, that it was before the changes.) My new
smb.conf file:

[global]
;	domain master = no
;	local master = yes
;	preferred master = yes
	passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
	printing = bsd
	syslog only = no
	dns proxy = no
	null passwords = yes
	protocol = NT1
	name resolve order = bcast host
	strict sync = no
	socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY
	character set = iso8859-2
	short preserve case = yes
	printcap name = /etc/printcap
	invalid users = root
	max log size = 1000
	interfaces = 192.168.32.253/255.255.255.0
	debug level = 0
	passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
*Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
	preserve case = yes
	security = user
	unix password sync = no
	workgroup = vorosko
	server string = %h server (Samba %v)
	syslog = 0
	client code page = 852
	netbios name = SERVER
	guest account = nobody
	load printers = no
	os level = 33
;	socket address = 192.168.32.253



Best regards
Gabor


> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Courtier-Dutton [mailto:James at superbug.demon.co.uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 1:47 AM
> To: Buda Gábor
> Cc: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] very low speed local network browsing 
> from win xp clients
> 
> 
> Buda Gábor wrote:
> > Hi Everyone there!
> > 
> > 
> > We have a very annoying problem since several months when 
> browsing the 
> > local network (workgroup) from win xp clients (from win98 
> clients it's 
> > almost OK). The machines in the workgroup appearing very 
> slooow (about 
> > 15-20 sec), and this value doesn't change even in the 2nd or 3rd 
> > browse. We have 1 linux (debian 2.4.21 pre 3) pc, running the samba 
> > (2.2312) server, about 15 win98 clients, 60 win xp clients, 
> 1 win nt 
> > server. When I shutdown our win nt server, the problem 
> doesn't change. 
> > When I shutdown our samba server, the browsing of our 
> workgroup become 
> > very fast.
> > 
> > Here is my smb.conf file, perhaps You can help me to solve this 
> > problem. Thank You.
> > 
> I don't know if it will help, but try changing the settings on the 
> Network card of the Windows XP clients.
> Go into advanced settings and change "Duplex" from "Auto" to 
> "Half Duplex".
> 
> I have found that samba functions quite badly with Windows 
> clients when 
> network packets start getting lost.
> 
> You would only need to try the change to "half duplex" on one 
> Windows XP 
> client to see if it helps for that one client.
> 
> I am still investigating ways to improve samba under these 
> packet loss 
> conditions, but it would be nice to see if changing to "half duplex" 
> helps others like it helped me.
> 
> Cheers
> James
> 
> 
> 
> 
>