samba - May 2004 - slow connecting to mapped drive after restart smbd

Hi,
 
I have a running samba3.3 as a file server in NT4 domain.  After a several
weeks without rebooting, I found alot of SMBD process exist and they
occupied a high usage of CPU, so I restart SMB service then all the thing
seems work nice again.  However, after this restart, some of the user report
that they are very difficult to connect to the mapped drive, they have to
wait for a long time to connect.  This case is not always happen, but
occured sometime.  
 
I would like to ask, is that mean I should not restart the SMB service?  or,
how can I restarting it without problem?  Please kindly advise, thankyou.
 
Best Regards,
Steven

It could be a WINS type problem. Try mapping the share this way and see
if the problem persists:

\\IP_Adress of samba server\share-name

steven.tse@possehlelectronics.com.hk wrote:
>Hi,
> 
>I have a running samba3.3 as a file server in NT4 domain.  After a several
>weeks without rebooting, I found alot of SMBD process exist and they
>occupied a high usage of CPU, so I restart SMB service then all the thing
>seems work nice again.  However, after this restart, some of the user report
>that they are very difficult to connect to the mapped drive, they have to
>wait for a long time to connect.  This case is not always happen, but
>occured sometime.  
> 
>I would like to ask, is that mean I should not restart the SMB service?  or,
>how can I restarting it without problem?  Please kindly advise, thankyou.
> 
>Best Regards,
>Steven
>  
>