[Samba] Roaming Profiles Load Very Slowly

[Gar Nelson]

Greg, this is old, but I found it quite useful. 
http://www.css.taylor.edu/~nehresma/samba.html

We've had two problems with roaming profiles. The first is that staff 
members store all kinds of stuff in their profile. The above document, 
about halfway down, "Profile changes" helped out here greatly.

The second problem that we had was Windows XP offline file 
synchronization. You can find that in Start -> All Programs -> 
Accessories -> Synchronization.  Our systems defaulted to turning it on. 
Manually going in and turning it all off (use the "setup" button too, 
more stuff there) made a dramatic difference.

Good Luck.
Gar

Greg Koch wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Looking for a bit of help!
>
> I have been using Linux for a while as a hobby, and can get around it 
> pretty quickly.  I have created a Gentoo Samba server and set it as 
> PDC with roaming profiles (there are several other services running on 
> the server as well).  I can login with my XP machines and the profile 
> is downloaded to the machine but it is VERY VERY VERY slow.  After a 
> login is started, there is a blank blue screen (~4min), then the 
> dialog that says "Loading your personal settings..."(~7min), and 
> another that says "Applying your personal settings..."(~6min).  The 
> whole login process takes ~15 minutes with any user.  The server is 
> running an AMD64 2GHz and the client is AMD Athlon 1.32GHz.  I have 
> used these clients on a Windows 2003 Server with AD and roaming 
> profiles before and it didn't take anywhere near this amount of time 
> (usually logon was <1Min).All network drives are mapped properly (home 
> and other shares through login.bat) Logoff seems to only take ~30sec 
> and IS storing the information to the server correctly.
>
> I have searched and searched through Samba docs and Google, and I just 
> can't find anyone that has a viable solution for me.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion or solution?
>