[Samba] ldap? Samba? Nss?

[Ryan Suarez]

Just curious, Are you using samba with nss_ldap and pam_ldap for user 
lookups and authentication?

sgmayo at mail.bloomfield.k12.mo.us wrote:
> It seems my logins are taking a long time to get logged in.  I am guessing
> that it is worse when classes start and a lot of the kids try to login at
> once.  My old server did not seem to have this problem though and we have
> the same number of students.
>
> Where should I start looking at this?  I am guessing that it is ldap, but
> want to make sure.
>
> If I log in at a computer and go to start->run and type \\server, it may
> take 1-2 minutes until I can see my shares which is the same thing the
> students are seeing when logging into the domain.  I just wanted to leave
> any profile copying out of the equation so I just did it this way.
>
> I noticed this first on my batch user add program for adding users to
> ldap/samba.  The program reads in the users and groups with getpwent and
> getgrent and it really takes a long time.
>
> Any suggestions of what to start looking for would be appreciated.
>
>
>