[Samba] Samba PDC with Windows 7 support request

[Gaiseric Vandal]

On 02/16/12 06:21, Dermot wrote:
> 2012/1/31 Jiří Procházka <jiri.prochazka at norbou.com>:
>> Dear Samba support team,
>>
>> I have a question on Samba 3.5.8 please, which is not solved by searching
>> the forums. I tried all suggested solutions, but nothing take effect.
>>
> ...
>> Domain users experience a slow login performance on Windows 7 clients that
>> are
>> joined into a samba domain (Samba version 3.5.4). The Windows 7 client was
>> joined successfully into the domain with the Windows 7 registry settings
>> adjusted according to http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7
>> (DomainCompatibilityMode = 0 and DNSNameResolutionRequired = 0).
> ...
>
> I have had similar problems. I was referred to the message in the
> mailing list archive [1]. I have applied what was described - used
> gpedit.msc -  this but I am still experiencing slow login times,
> exactly 40 seconds on each workstation.
>
> I just checked on one workstation where the user had a jpeg as his
> desktop background, I mention this because there are references to a
> Window7 bug about slow login and a plain desktop, and that has the
> correct group policy setting and still the login time was exactly 40
> seconds.
>
> I too be interested in hearing what others have to say on this.
> Thanks,
> Dermot.
>
> 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/samba@lists.samba.org/msg104494.html


Are you using roaming profiles ? 
Are you using offline folders-  I had problems with offline folders and
Windows 7-  it could break offline authentication.     

Does the Windows event log show anything about problems locating a
domain controller?