Hi I've been asked to help with a samba problem on a mission critical system. I've been working with samba for a LONG time, but I have to admit this time its got me stumped :( Scenario: --------- Sun Solaris box (new installation, I didn't check the version) running a large storage solution making a carousel system of tapes look like a file system. All SCSI based. Samba is used to make this (slow but accesible) file system available to 2 NT machines running an application that in turn makes it available to many client machines. Recently accessed files are stored on hard drive. Samba 2.0.6. Many other of these installations are running fine with samba. This one used to run fine until some changes were made over December. The only change that people are aware of is that a new network card has been added to the Sun box for a dedicated crossover link between this server and one of the NT boxes. Samba access to other hard drive shares is fine. When a share using the tapes is accessed, the 1st time the files are copied off it takes a LONG time to copy the files. This seems to work OK. Subsequent accesses should then be fast. Files are generally small (1 to 50kb). Problem: -------- Accessing cached files from the NT machines take 15 to 30 seconds. Changing directories is also VERY slow. Testing so far: --------------- Test 1: Fiddle with settings in smb.conf. Setup was quite extensive, I piece by piece took it down to the simplest config possible. Using all defaults, user security etc. There is no change. Test 2: Bringing a linux notebook, I smbmounted the drives. Everything works exactly like it is supposed to work. Test 3: Using different NT server, restuls are the same as with other NT servers. I've also tried setting locking = no, no difference. Any ideas on what can be causing this? What I can try to fix it? Is it possible that an error like this can be caused by a change in the Sun hardware? Thanx for any ideas. Anton -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "We have to be the change we want to see in the world" - Gandhi