samba - Sep 1999 - Slowww access from Win9x to Samba Shares

Slow connections
login isnt too bad ...  4 sec. tops
but its at least 10 seconds or more to access Samba shared Printers or
Directories. this is a 10/100 network using Redhat 6.0
with Samba 2.0.5a ...   everything works great Except for access
times. for example Win9x  -->  NT  its relatively Quick.
Is this an Authorization Default that checks every access to Shared
objects ?   security is all but turned off, null passwords etc.
should it be this slow on an Idle Network ?
PS. we are using JDirect print servers as RAW queue's ..... an IP
address's   Rob F.

You wrote:
| Slow connections
| login isnt too bad ...  4 sec. tops
| but its at least 10 seconds or more to access Samba shared Printers
or
| Directories. this is a 10/100 network using Redhat 6.0

	This might just be a network card problem: check
	with ftp on the various machines to see if the problem
	is peculiar to samba, or peculiar to one machine.

	In particular, use ftp to copy **both ways** and look
	for big differences in speed.

	Modern 10/100 half-/full-duplex cards are remarkably
	picky about being set exactly the same as the hub
	they're connected to!

--dave
-- 
David Collier-Brown,  | Always do right. This will gratify some people
185 Ellerslie Ave.,   | and astonish the rest.        -- Mark Twain
Willowdale, Ontario   | http://java.science.yorku.ca/~davecb
Work: (905) 415-2849 Home: (416) 223-8968 Email: davecb@canada.sun.com

I've run into the same problem.  The 2.0.3 I'm using at work has no
problems, but the updated 2.0.5a at home takes super long to even pull up a
list of shares.  I'm thinking about backreving to 2.0.3 to see if the
problem goes away.  BTW I'm using the same config file from the Slackware
3.5 release which was I think 1.9.18p5 (I think that was the version :) -
its been a while).  

I upgraded the Slack machine to RedHat 6.0, kernel 2.2.5-22, and applied the
2.0.5a rpm to the system.  Since then, I have had really slow net-hood
access. I find once I get the connection, I can move around with an
acceptable delay.  

When I tried setting up access rights to the /home/http directory, I wanted
to give full rights to a group called 'editors'. I added the group and
added
the users who will have access. Everytime I try editing or adding files I
get Access Denied.  So then I issued a chgrp users on the /home/http
directory and I then had access to delete and modify files.  Is there a
samba-group list I need to setup?  This worked in the older versions.

Thanks
Rich
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert W. Fowler III [mailto:rfowler@ntisys.com]
>
> Slow connections
> login isnt too bad ...  4 sec. tops
> but its at least 10 seconds or more to access Samba shared Printers or
> Directories. this is a 10/100 network using Redhat 6.0
> with Samba 2.0.5a ...   everything works great Except for access
> times.

Ok, this is wierd....

I commented out the 'null passwords' option and it solved all my delays.

I forwarded my findings to another user who had the same problem, and his
problems were resolved to.

The speed has jumped from 10-15 seconds response time to less than a second.

I check the system logs and found two messages occuring everytime I clicked
on the share.

	>>  PAMDB - Structure no longer valid.

	>>  1 Authentication failure (uid=0)  budman -> Samba device

(Something like that)
Can this be a bug in 2.0.5a?  This option works fine in 2.0.3.

Thanks,
Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Collier-Brown [mailto:davecb@canada.sun.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 7:57 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA
> Subject: Re: Slowww access from Win9x to Samba Shares
> 
> 
> You wrote:
> | Slow connections
> | login isnt too bad ...  4 sec. tops
> | but its at least 10 seconds or more to access Samba shared Printers
> or
> | Directories. this is a 10/100 network using Redhat 6.0
> 
> 	This might just be a network card problem: check
> 	with ftp on the various machines to see if the problem
> 	is peculiar to samba, or peculiar to one machine.
> 
> 	In particular, use ftp to copy **both ways** and look
> 	for big differences in speed.
> 
> 	Modern 10/100 half-/full-duplex cards are remarkably
> 	picky about being set exactly the same as the hub
> 	they're connected to!
> 
> --dave
> -- 
> David Collier-Brown,  | Always do right. This will gratify some people
> 185 Ellerslie Ave.,   | and astonish the rest.        -- Mark Twain
> Willowdale, Ontario   | http://java.science.yorku.ca/~davecb
> Work: (905) 415-2849 Home: (416) 223-8968 Email: davecb@canada.sun.com
>