[Samba] Directory listing delay with WinXP and IPtables
Radio Gong 2000 GmbH & Co. KG [Technik]
sascha.bieler at radiogong.de
Tue Jun 1 00:45:49 GMT 2004
If it's just on Win XP and Win2k works fine, I swear it's an WinS problem!
Tail your logfiles of the iptables and see what your workstation isn't allowed
to do...
Check out the wins support in smb.conf for this problem.
Regards
Sascha
Am Dienstag, 1. Juni 2004 01:03 schrieb azeem ahmad:
> hi friend.
> that is what i m wondering about for a while. and listen i got another
> problem that if i redirect port 80 (http) to transparent proxy in
> PREROUTING then this delay approaches to a delay of 4 minutes. but if there
> is no rule for transparent redirection then it takes a delay as u
> specified. please let me know if u find the solution and i will aslo let u
> know if i find any problem
>
> Regards
> Azeem
>
> >From: Randy S <randoms at yahoo.com>
> >To: samba at lists.samba.org
> >Subject: [Samba] Directory listing delay with WinXP and IPtables
> >Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 15:50:47 -0700
> >
> >Sorry if this has been covered before.
> >
> >I setup a new Samba server using RedHat EL 3, and samba 3.0.2-6.3E (the
> >version that comes with Redhat).
> >
> >We were seeing an intermittant 20 seconcd delay when grabbing a directory
> >listing, but only from XP, win 2k was fine.
> >
> >I couldn't completely nail down when the delay occured but it seemed to be
> >when the directory or share hadn't been accessed in a while, ~15mins ??.
> >There was never a problem or delay seeing the samba server on the browse
> >list.
> >
> >I turned off iptables and the delay has been drastically reduced, now down
> >to 2 secs, which is acceptable.
> >
> >Obviously I'd like to turn iptables back on.
> >
> >I'm wondering if there are any special port openings or other iptables
> >settings that need adjustments with XP; or if there are adjustments I need
> >to make to the XP clients. I've already tried the
> > RemoteComputer\NameSpace\ regkey fix to no avail.
> >
> >It's a very basic iptables setup. I opened up the standard samba ports.
> >I've listed the output of 'iptables --list' below.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >TTIA
> >
> >/randoms/
> >
> >'iptables --list' output :
> >
> >Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> >target prot opt source destination
> >RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere
> >
> >Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
> >target prot opt source destination
> >RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere
> >
> >Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> >target prot opt source destination
> >
> >Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references)
> >target prot opt source destination
> >ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere
> >ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp any
> >ACCEPT ipv6-crypt-- anywhere anywhere
> >ACCEPT ipv6-auth-- anywhere anywhere
> >ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state
> >RELATED,ESTABLISHED
> >ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp
> >dpt:netbios-ns
> >ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW udp
> >dpt:netbios-ns
> >ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp
> >dpt:netbios-dgm
> >ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW udp
> >dpt:netbios-dgm
> >ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp
> >dpt:netbios-ssn
> >ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW udp
> >dpt:netbios-ssn
> >ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp
> >dpt:microsoft-ds
> >ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW udp
> >dpt:microsoft-ds
> >ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp
> >dpt:497
> >ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW udp
> >dpt:497
> >ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp
> >dpt:ssh
> >REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere reject-with
> >icmp-host-prohibited
> >
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