[Samba] logon problems

[Shawn Henderson]

I thought that maybe it was a network problem.  So I put 1 WS and the
 > Samba server on a hub by themselves and it is still slow to logon

The problem may be your on a hub. As all the network traffic is 
broadcasted. Try pulling a small switch from somewhere and see the 
difference in speed. Also what is your wins configuration?

Just a thought

Scott Mayo wrote:

> I am really not sure if this is a samba problem or what, but is starting 
> to annoy me.  Here is what is happening.
> 
> Server 1:  Squid,squidguard,dansguardian,iptables (This is firewall/filter)
> Server2:  Samba (used for file storage and squid authentification)
> Clients are Windows 98.  A few XP's.
> 
> Everything has run fine for almost 2 years.  The other day when trying 
> to log on to the internet, it would wait about 20 seconds and return me 
> to my logon prompt.  This was for almost every user.  I have one generic 
> user that got on all the time.  Another user started getting on after 
> about 5 tries and was then able to authenticate each time.  The rest 
> still did not authenticate.
> 
> When I do:
> smb_auth -W DOMAIN -p sambasip -d
> it makes it to the last and gives an ERR when giving the contents of 
> //server/netlogon/proxyauth.  All the rights are correct and it contains 
> the word allow, nothing has changed this for 2 years so it should be 
> correct.
> 
> When I do:
> echo "more proxyauth" | smbclient //server/netlogon -U user
> It gives me the contents of proxyauth fine.
> 
> I have also noticed that logons start to slow down during the day. First 
> thing in the morning they are fast, but then a little later it will take 
> about 25 seconds before running my logon scripts. School is out, so 
> there are only about 5 people actually here, so it is not bogging down 
> the network.  I ran a sniffer and all the traffic looks alright.  My 
> authentification will work for a while and then later in the day, it 
> will stop again.  I take authentification out of squid and then 
> everything gets on the net fine.
> 
> I thought that maybe it was a network problem.  So I put 1 WS and the 
> Samba server on a hub by themselves and it is still slow to logon.  I 
> thought that maybe it was the NIC, but I realized that SSHing into my 
> firewall has slowed down also.  So this makes me wonder exactly what is 
> going on.  If anyone has any ideas of what to look at, I would greatly 
> appreciate any advice.