samba - May 2010 - Long Delay on Fresh Windows 7 Clients

For testing purposes, I am running Windows 7 on a VM (VMWare), reverting to
"fresh install" Windows 7 frequently. This Windows 7 client, needs to
access a share on a local Samba server (Samba 3.0.23a-1 running on Fedora Core
4).

When I type \\sambahost\sharename, a prompt for the username and password will
eventually appear (and let me authenticate successfully) but it takes almost
forever (i.e. 1-5 minutes) until that prompt dialog box appears.

Once I login successfully, I no longer experience that delay (as if Windows 7
remembers all the details about this connection) -- ever after a reboot.

My problem however is that once I revert back to "fresh install",
Windows 7 no longer has this memory and that long frustrating delay occurs
again.

My question: Is there anything I can do on the Samba server side (smb.conf ?) to
eliminate this delay? BTW, there is no such delay with "fresh install"
Windows XP.

Thanks,
Daniel

smbatsc at gmx.com wrote:
> When I type \\sambahost\sharename, a prompt for the username and
> password will eventually appear (and let me authenticate
> successfully) but it takes almost forever (i.e. 1-5 minutes) until
> that prompt dialog box appears.
> 
Last week week my customer call me for the same problem where I
installed an "old" version of samba (like yours) without local dns.
After some tests, a simple bind9 + master local zone and reversed one
solved the problem.
I don't know further technical details, but I presume that 7 _need_ a
reply from a dns. If it not find a good one, before gone to timeout and
switch to wins resolution, it took *a lot of time*

Michele

?Thank you very much Michele. Because it's not trivial for me to introduce
DNS for the local Samba server, I just tried accessing the share by typing its
static IP address: \\192.168.0.13\sharename.

I still get the same delay.

Perhaps it's not DNS resolution that's causing that?

Thanks,
Daniel

mich... at unipex.it wrote:
 smba... at gmx.com wrote:
> When I type \\sambahost\sharename, a prompt for the username and
> password will eventually appear (and let me authenticate
> successfully) but it takes almost forever (i.e. 1-5 minutes) until
> that prompt dialog box appears.
> 
Last week week my customer call me for the same problem where I
installed an "old" version of samba (like yours) without local dns.
After some tests, a simple bind9 + master local zone and reversed one
solved the problem.
I don't know further technical details, but I presume that 7 _need_ a
reply from a dns. If it not find a good one, before gone to timeout and
switch to wins resolution, it took *a lot of time*