[Samba] Logging in to a Samba 3.5.6 domain from Windows 7 takes more than 2 minutes.

[Dale Schroeder]

On 12/20/2011 5:38 AM, steve wrote
> On 12/20/2011 11:23 AM, pradip mondal wrote:
>> dear all,
>>   i am also face the same problem. any body give us solution to fast 
>> login in samba pdc by win7 client.
>>   regards
>>
>> Pradip Mondal
>> 9831626957
>>
>> --- On Tue, 20/12/11, Daniel Hedblom<daniel.hedblom at solleftea.se>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Daniel Hedblom<daniel.hedblom at solleftea.se>
>> Subject: [Samba] Logging in to a Samba 3.5.6 domain from Windows 7 
>> takes more than 2 minutes.
>> To: samba at lists.samba.org
>> Date: Tuesday, 20 December, 2011, 2:46 PM
>>
>>
>> Hi, are about to roll out Samba to 2600 users and 1500+ machines and 
>> have a
>> slight problem.
>>
>> Server: Samba 3.4.9 running on ubuntu 10.04
>> Client: Windows 7, 32 and 64 bit on various hardware
>>
>> The problem is that logging in takes time and much of it seems to be the
>> Windows 7 client just waiting. While 2 minutes may sound pretty ok 
>> this is
>> without any roaming profiles or GPO applied.
>>
>> The logs shows nothing interesting ,on Windows i see error 6005 and 6006
>> but thats just a standard logging when things take a long time, can be
>> anything. On a wireshark trace nothing in perticulat comes up before the
>> long to the stick timeouts. Anyone else who has seen this problem 
>> after applying the
>> various remedies on this mailing list and from other places on the 
>> internet?
>>
>> Thankful for any input.
>> //danielh
>>
> Don't allow solid colour desktop backgrounds. Leave the win 7 
> background as the stock jpg. Halves the logon time. Samba 3.6, openSUSE.
> HTH
> Steve

Also see the GPO setting from this thread:

http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2010-February/153585.html

Dale