[Samba] View Workgroup Computers is Slow to Come Up

[Scott Lovenberg]

Rick Cone,Secure Payment Systems wrote:
> What would cause the "View Workgroup Computers" to be slow in coming up.
> It will take from 10 seconds to 1 minute.
>  
> A am using Windows XP hosts with an SCO OpenServer using Samba in a
> workgroup, and Samba is the preferred master (os 255) with WINS support.   I
> have the Browser service turned off on all Windows clients.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Rick Cone
> Secure Payment Systems
>  
>  
>   
Is winbind the first name resolution protocol for the server, or is it 
trying to get host names from hosts/DNS/NIS/NIS+/LDAP first? You have to 
fail down the chain until you get a positive name resolution, which 
could involve recursive lookups and such.  Just a gut reaction to 
browsing problems.  Also, I've had old hosts in my winbind cache that it 
tries to find and cannot - but that was under the outside influence of 
my own stupidity, I'm not sure that it can happen very well under normal 
conditions.