samba - May 2003 - [Q] Why does it take so long for XP to logon?

If I login to our Samba box (RedHat 7.1 + 2.4.20) under Windows 2K 
via Start->Run->share name, I get logged in almost immediately. It 
averages about 25 seconds under XP. This behavior has been true in 
various versions of Samba since I believe XP was available and is 
reproducible on every (several) Windows 2K/XP boxes I have tried. 
This is a workgroup environment with Samba acting as master browser. 
It doesn't matter whether the share is referenced as an IP address or 
NetBIOS name.

Other keywords: login delay logon delay no response wait long delay 
Windows 2000 Windows XP
-- 

Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

Maurice,

Have you used ethereal to capture the network traffic to find out what is
happening on yhe wire. This is where you would need to start since
anything short of facts would involve pure speculcation.

- John T.

On Sun, 18 May 2003, Maurice Volaski wrote:
> If I login to our Samba box (RedHat 7.1 + 2.4.20) under Windows 2K
> via Start->Run->share name, I get logged in almost immediately. It
> averages about 25 seconds under XP. This behavior has been true in
> various versions of Samba since I believe XP was available and is
> reproducible on every (several) Windows 2K/XP boxes I have tried.
> This is a workgroup environment with Samba acting as master browser.
> It doesn't matter whether the share is referenced as an IP address or
> NetBIOS name.
>
> Other keywords: login delay logon delay no response wait long delay
> Windows 2000 Windows XP
>
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org

Have you disabled the WebClient service on the WinXP machines?  If the 
WebClient is enabled it will first try to access a share using the 
webdav protocol then it will try smb.

Patrick

Maurice Volaski wrote:
> If I login to our Samba box (RedHat 7.1 + 2.4.20) under Windows 2K via 
> Start->Run->share name, I get logged in almost immediately. It 
> averages about 25 seconds under XP. This behavior has been true in 
> various versions of Samba since I believe XP was available and is 
> reproducible on every (several) Windows 2K/XP boxes I have tried. This 
> is a workgroup environment with Samba acting as master browser. It 
> doesn't matter whether the share is referenced as an IP address or 
> NetBIOS name.
>
> Other keywords: login delay logon delay no response wait long delay 
> Windows 2000 Windows XP