samba - Sep 1997 - slow logon NT & samba

Hi,

I am using UNIXWARE 2.1.1 and samba-1.9.17 in a network with unixware,
novell, NT, DOS, win3.11, win95, AIX and a mainframe.

The samba server runs on UNIXWARE 2.1.1, at first it didn't work at all,
but I got a tip for unixware2.1.1: Replace the libsocket.so.1 with the
older version!!

Now smbclient -L my_uw_host works fine, but there is another problem:

When I browse on an NT machine to the samba server, logon takes a LONG
time, like 3 of 4 minutes.

Then I get the prompt for username and password, and after that
everything is allright, for NT.

On win 95 the samba server appears fast, but the logon says:

Enter password for
\server\user\IP$

It doesn't ask for the username, and there is no workiung password.

Thanks for your attention,
Jeroen Vriesman.

Why use Gates if there are no fences?

Jeroen Vriesman wrote:
> When I browse on an NT machine to the samba server, logon takes a LONG
> time, like 3 of 4 minutes.
I see this all the time, too.  But it seems to happen more when	I'm
logged onto the NT machine as 'Administrator'.  In fact, when I'm
using
the 'Administrator' login on the NT machine, it doesn't seem to
matter
what username I give, the 'pcguest' user is used.

Is this your experience also?

We haven't had any trouble with Win95 machines.

On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Jeroen Vriesman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using UNIXWARE 2.1.1 and samba-1.9.17 in a network with unixware,
> novell, NT, DOS, win3.11, win95, AIX and a mainframe.
> 
> The samba server runs on UNIXWARE 2.1.1, at first it didn't work at
all,
> but I got a tip for unixware2.1.1: Replace the libsocket.so.1 with the
> older version!!
I have a copy of Unixware - after we finished the development contract, it
went back in the box and no-one has felt inclined to take out again 8-)
> 
> Now smbclient -L my_uw_host works fine, but there is another problem:
> 
> When I browse on an NT machine to the samba server, logon takes a LONG
> time, like 3 of 4 minutes.
This sort of delay sounds like a DNS problem. You ARE using DNS, aren't
you? Otherwise, check the process limits on the Unixware server - you may
be waiting for a samba server to start.
> 
> Then I get the prompt for username and password, and after that
> everything is allright, for NT.
> 
> On win 95 the samba server appears fast, but the logon says:
> 
> Enter password for
> \server\user\IP$
> 
> It doesn't ask for the username, and there is no workiung password.
It already knows the username as the one you used on the M$ box - is this
the same as the username on the unix box?
> 
> Thanks for your attention,
> Jeroen Vriesman.
> 
> Why use Gates if there are no fences?
> 
Indeed!


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