[Samba] Long Delay on Fresh Windows 7 Clients

[smbatsc at gmx.com]

Thank you very much Michele. Because it's not trivial for me to introduce DNS for the local Samba server, I just tried accessing the share by typing its static IP address: \\192.168.0.13\sharename.

I still get the same delay.

Perhaps it's not DNS resolution that's causing that?

Thanks,
Daniel

mich... at unipex.it wrote:
 smba... at gmx.com wrote:
> When I type \\sambahost\sharename, a prompt for the username and
> password will eventually appear (and let me authenticate
> successfully) but it takes almost forever (i.e. 1-5 minutes) until
> that prompt dialog box appears.
> 
Last week week my customer call me for the same problem where I
installed an "old" version of samba (like yours) without local dns.
After some tests, a simple bind9 + master local zone and reversed one
solved the problem.
I don't know further technical details, but I presume that 7 _need_ a
reply from a dns. If it not find a good one, before gone to timeout and
switch to wins resolution, it took *a lot of time*