[Samba] Logging-in takes 1 hour when changing computers

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:26:08 +0100
Piers Kittel via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I've got a simple active directory server set-up with 5 computers and 
> about 5 users which works reasonably well, but recently, when an user 
> changes to a different computer, it takes about a hour for the user
> to log in.  However, future log-ins on the same computer is pretty
> much instant, but the exact same problems occurs when the user
> changes computers - even to one they've used previously!
> 
> I get the feeling the whole profile is being downloaded from the
> server as the client computer's hard drive is thrashing for the whole
> hour, but it shouldn't be taking about a hour, but a couple minutes
> at most?
> 
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> With kind regards - Piers
> 
> 

Go on, spoil us by actually giving us some information, such as what
distro is the DC running on ?, what is in smb.conf, what are your
clients running etc etc.

Rowland