samba - Jan 2003 - Eudora slow moving from samba 1.9.18p10 to latest

We are (only just) upgrading from Samba 1.9.18p10 to the latest 2.2.7a. We 
run Eudora 5.1 on our PC clients, which pick up their mail boxes from home 
directories on Solaris machines using samba shares. When we install the new 
Samba, all our Samba clients slow down incredibly. I suspect here is a 
change in the Samba config file requirements between the versions? Has 
anyone else already solved this, please?

Thanks,

Paul

Dept. Medical Physics,
UCL Hospitals,
LONDON WC1E 6JA

Paul:

It's really a pretty basic smb.conf

# Global parameters
[global]
         workgroup = XXX
         log file = /xxx/xxx/samba/log.%m
         max log size = 2000
         name resolve order = host wins bcast
         max open files = 1000
         os level = 255
         preferred master = Yes
         wins support = Yes
         kernel oplocks = No
         guest account = xxx
         create mask = 0660
         directory mask = 0770
         force directory mode = 02000
         hosts allow = 192.168.254.
         short preserve case = No
         include = /opt/samba/lib/smb.conf.

[home]
         comment = Home Directories
         path = /export/home
         read only = No
         create mask = 0600
         directory mask = 0700
         guest ok = Yes

I had guessed you where running a pop3 daemon of some kind.  I was just 
intrigued by your statement 'which pick up their mail boxes from home 
directories on Solaris machines using samba shares.' I took that as you 
where some how reading the /var/mail mailboxes directly without using pop3 
by mounting them thru a share. We actually use a different Solaris box as 
our pop3/imap mail server. The above smb.conf is from our file server where 
the Eudora mailboxes, address books, etc are kept for each user. I use the 
[home] share above instead of the default [homes] so that users can see 
other directories in /export/home other than their own. Good Luck.

At 11:14 AM 01/08/2003 +0000, Paul Ostro wrote:
>Hi, Thomas.
>
>Thanks for the reply.
>
>We are running a pop3 daemon on a Solaris (2.8) machine - not sure which 
>one. Eudora runs on NT clients and gets mail from the pop3 daemon. The 
>Eudora mailboxes (and other files) are on the users home directories, 
>which are mounted by a drive letter. Eudora places the incoming mail from 
>pop3 into these mailboxes.
>
>The home directory drive is mounted onto a Samba share. I suspect it is 
>the settings for this share which are causing Eudora to run slowly.
>
>If you have a comparable setup, and it is working OK, would you be willing 
>to share your [global] settings and the settings from the mailbox share, 
>all from smb.conf? You may want to disguise paths etc for security reasons?
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Paul
>
>
>At 14:41 07/01/03, Thomas G. Tri wrote:
>>We are also running Eudora (v5.1 & v5.2) against a Samba server
v2.2.7
>>running Solaris 2.7. How are the PC clients "picking up their mail
boxes
>>from home directories." Are you creating some kind of symbolic link
to
>>the mailboxes in /var/mail? Is the Solaris box retrieving the mail from 
>>/var/mail into their home directories? Are you running a pop3 or imap 
>>server on the Solaris box? We are using an old version of Sun Internet 
>>Mail Server (v2.0) as a pop3 server without problems.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Tom
>>
>>At 05:00 PM 01/06/2003 +0000, samba-request@lists.samba.org wrote:
>>>Message: 13
>>>Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 11:01:29 +0000
>>>To: samba@lists.samba.org
>>>From: Paul Ostro <paulo@medphys.ucl.ac.uk>
>>>Cc: supporters@medphys.ucl.ac.uk
>>>Subject: [Samba] Eudora slow moving from samba 1.9.18p10 to latest
>>>
>>>We are (only just) upgrading from Samba 1.9.18p10 to the latest
2.2.7a. We
>>>run Eudora 5.1 on our PC clients, which pick up their mail boxes
from home
>>>directories on Solaris machines using samba shares. When we install
the new
>>>Samba, all our Samba clients slow down incredibly. I suspect here is
a
>>>change in the Samba config file requirements between the versions?
Has
>>>anyone else already solved this, please?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Paul
>>>
>>>Dept. Medical Physics,
>>>UCL Hospitals,
>>>LONDON WC1E 6JA
>>
>>
>>----------
>>Dr. Paul Ostro CEng SRCSc                       Tel: 020 7679 6272
>>Dept. Medical Physics,                  Fax: 020 7679 6269
>>UCL Hospitals,
>>Shropshire House (1st 
>>Floor)                    Email:  paulo@medphys.ucl.ac.uk
>>11-20, Capper St.,                                     
paul.ostro@uclh.org
>>LONDON WC1E 6JA