JT, Jerry, Chris, Andrew??? Anything new was:Re: [Samba] Extremely slow during browsing some directories

[david rankin]

John, Jerry, Chris and, yes you too Bartlett (mate):

    Have you thought any more about this problem?? It has been posted under:
Samba errors with smb QUERY_PATH_INFO,Error: STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND

3.0.7 - NT Create AndX Response, Error:, QUERY_PATH_INFO,Error:

Extremely slow during browsing some directories

    Basically Linwei and myself are having 30 second delays descending 
directory trees within the file-open dialogs from MS applications. (Yes I 
know, it's an MS thing, but I thought you guys would want to know) The 
problem does NOT affect windows explorer, only the MS Office application's 
file-open function. I've posted the ethereal dump of the communications, 
but, interpreting what it is telling me is beyond this idiot 
engineer/lawyer. Anyway, what happens is that if you open say: MS Word, and 
go to open a file -- and click on the directory list box, the process 
freezes for 18-30 seconds. That generates the AndX response error, 
QUERY_PATH_INFO error, etc...

    Yes, it is MS related, BUT, it only happens on trying to access files on 
a samba share.  No doubt, MS has thrown a wrench into the equation, but we 
need to understand it and find out how to fix in on our side. The problem is 
"I AINT smart enough to do it on my own." Damn, it hurts to admit it, but 
it's so.

    My proposal is for you guys to "Tell me what you want me to 
capture/send/whatever and I'll do it" I'm too old to try and learn this 
trick. (You know "Play golf -- and your tennis game suffers" so "pick your 
sport")

    That's it. Enough philosophy. I think we have a real problem to work. I 
am more than willing to do what I can, but at this level, I am drawing from 
a "shallow pool" of knowledge.

    Your thoughts?

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David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
(936) 715-9333
(936) 715-9339 fax
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linwei Cheng" <hcheng at sjgeophysics.com>
To: "david rankin" <drankin at cox-internet.com>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Extremely slow during browsing some directories


>
> Hello,
>
> I've read the relative thread on "STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND", and I 
> think that's part of my issue:
>
> 1. When I map the shared folder as a disk to my windowsXP and Windows2K 
> machine, then every step exploring the mapped disk or directories under 
> this disk, takes more than 30sec to response from the samba server. I use 
> ethereal to trace the network, and found that there are a lot of "SMB 
> Trans2 request, QUERY_PATH_INFO" and "SMB Trans2 response QUERY_PATH_INFO" 
> roundtrip while my windows machine waiting.
>
> 2. When I don't map the shared folder to my windows machines, things are 
> better -- the slowness doesn't happen frequently, but it does happend 
> randomly. When it happens, I got "STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND" error 
> reported.
>
> I just updated my Samba to "3.0.12pre-1" from "3.0.10.fc3", but it seems 
> all my issues remain as before. Does this issue introduced in certain 
> Samba version? Does anybody suffer the same problem as mine now or before?
>
> Regards,
> linwei
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "david rankin" <drankin at cox-internet.com>
> To: "Linwei Cheng" <hcheng at sjgeophysics.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 7:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Extremely slow during browsing some directories
>
>
>> See all of the posts from the last few days with the subject:
>>
>> Re: [Samba] Re: Samba errors with smb QUERY_PATH_INFO,Error: 
>> STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
>>
>>
>> --
>> David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
>> RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC
>> 510 Ochiltree Street
>> Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
>> (936) 715-9333
>> (936) 715-9339 fax
>> www.rankinlawfirm.com
>> --
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Linwei Cheng" <hcheng at sjgeophysics.com>
>> To: "Jason Balicki" <kodak at frontierhomemortgage.com>; 
>> <samba at lists.samba.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 7:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Samba] Extremely slow during browsing some directories
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I disabled the web client service on my computer, but it does no good. 
>>> ( There are also other sharing folders from windows machinces on my 
>>> network, but I didn't suffer the same problem from those windows 
>>> sharings...). And I also tried to work on the samba server machine 
>>> locally using smbclient, and it seems no this kind of issue....
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Jason Balicki" <kodak at frontierhomemortgage.com>
>>> To: "Linwei Cheng" <hcheng at sjgeophysics.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:16 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Samba] Extremely slow during browsing some directories
>>>
>>>
>>>> Linwei Cheng wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am quite new on using Samba and sorry maybe ask a silly question 
>>>>> here. I set up simple Samba server on Fedora3 using the samba rpm 
>>>>> package comes with fedora3( version 3.0.10-1.fc3). I use the SHARE 
>>>>> security level to make things easier. Everything goes fine so far, 
>>>>> except that for some windows user, some times, on browsing some 
>>>>> directories, it takes extremely long time to display the folders/files 
>>>>> list. This seems weird because it happened radomly: sometimes for the 
>>>>> same user, same machine and browse same directory, it works quickly, 
>>>>> but sometimes it take about a minute to get the response from server. 
>>>>> What's the possibilities for this issue? Deperately need help.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Try turning off the "webclient" service on the windows client machines.
>>>>
>>>> --J(K)
>>>
>>>
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