Hello folks, I am trying to set up a second samba file server on our network using samba 2.2.1a on RH 7.1. It is configured to be a PDC and domain master browser. There is always a fairly long pause (20-30 sec) when it is authenticating the password and also when any of the shares are first accessed. It does not seem to be a network/NetBIOS problem or a conflict with our original file server/PDC because it displays the same behavior when it is isolated from the rest of the network and also when you access the shares via smbclient on the machine itself. On the other hand, there are no delays when accessing the same machine through Webmin or SSH. Our original file server (samba 2.0 on SuSE 6.4) has never had any similar delays and I have the second server configured very closely similar to the first. What could be causing this? Could it be related to a difference in how the 2.4.x kernels handle op-locking? Following is the output from testparm. Thanks, Matt Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Can't find include file /etc/samba/individual/.conf Processing section "[homes]" Processing section "[netlogon]" Processing section "[Public]" Loaded services file OK. Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions # Global parameters [global] coding system client code page = 850 code page directory = /etc/codepages workgroup = NTBI2 netbios name netbios aliases netbios scope server string = NTBI file server on Samba version %v interfaces bind interfaces only = No security = USER encrypt passwords = Yes update encrypted = No allow trusted domains = Yes hosts equiv min passwd length = 5 map to guest = Never null passwords = No obey pam restrictions = No password server smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd root directory pam password change = No passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* passwd chat debug = No username map password level = 0 username level = 0 unix password sync = Yes restrict anonymous = No lanman auth = Yes use rhosts = No log level = 2 syslog = 1 syslog only = No log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 timestamp logs = Yes debug hires timestamp = No debug pid = No debug uid = No protocol = NT1 large readwrite = No max protocol = NT1 min protocol = CORE read bmpx = No read raw = Yes write raw = Yes nt smb support = Yes nt pipe support = Yes nt acl support = Yes announce version = 4.5 announce as = NT max mux = 50 max xmit = 65535 name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast max packet = 65535 max ttl = 259200 max wins ttl = 518400 min wins ttl = 21600 time server = No change notify timeout = 60 deadtime = 0 getwd cache = Yes keepalive = 300 lpq cache time = 10 max smbd processes = 0 max disk size = 0 max open files = 10000 read size = 16384 socket options = TCP_NODELAY stat cache size = 50 total print jobs = 0 load printers = Yes printcap name = /etc/printcap enumports command addprinter command deleteprinter command show add printer wizard = Yes os2 driver map strip dot = No character set mangled stack = 50 stat cache = Yes domain admin group domain guest group machine password timeout = 604800 add user script delete user script logon script logon path = \\%N\%U\profile logon drive logon home = \\%N\%U domain logons = Yes os level = 64 lm announce = Auto lm interval = 60 preferred master = True local master = Yes domain master = True browse list = Yes enhanced browsing = Yes dns proxy = No wins proxy = No wins server wins support = Yes wins hook kernel oplocks = Yes oplock break wait time = 0 add share command change share command delete share command config file preload lock dir = /var/cache/samba utmp directory wtmp directory utmp = No default service message command dfree command valid chars remote announce remote browse sync socket address = 0.0.0.0 homedir map time offset = 0 NIS homedir = No source environment panic action hide local users = No host msdfs = No winbind uid winbind gid template homedir = /home/%D/%U template shell = /bin/false winbind separator = \ winbind cache time = 15 comment path alternate permissions = No username guest account = nobody invalid users valid users admin users = retrospect read list write list printer admin force user force group read only = Yes create mask = 0744 force create mode = 00 security mask = 0777 force security mode = 00 directory mask = 0755 force directory mode = 00 directory security mask = 0777 force directory security mode = 00 inherit permissions = No guest only = No guest ok = No only user = No hosts allow hosts deny status = Yes max connections = 0 min print space = 0 strict sync = No sync always = No write cache size = 0 max print jobs = 1000 printable = No postscript = No printing = bsd print command = lpr -r -P%p %s lpq command = lpq -P%p lprm command = lprm -P%p %j lppause command lpresume command queuepause command queueresume command printer name printer driver printer driver file = /etc/samba/printers.def printer driver location default case = lower case sensitive = No preserve case = Yes short preserve case = Yes mangle case = No mangling char = ~ hide dot files = Yes hide unreadable = No delete veto files = No veto files hide files veto oplock files map system = No map hidden = No map archive = Yes mangled names = Yes mangled map browseable = Yes blocking locks = Yes fake oplocks = No locking = Yes oplocks = Yes level2 oplocks = Yes oplock contention limit = 2 posix locking = Yes strict locking = No share modes = Yes copy include = /etc/samba/individual/.conf exec preexec close = No postexec root preexec root preexec close = No root postexec available = Yes volume fstype = NTFS set directory = No wide links = Yes follow symlinks = Yes dont descend magic script magic output delete readonly = No dos filemode = No dos filetimes = No dos filetime resolution = No fake directory create times = No vfs object vfs options msdfs root = No [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /home/userhomes/%U/Public read only = No browseable = No [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /home/netlogon guest ok = Yes browseable = No share modes = No [Public] comment = Public folder for all users path = /home/public read only = No inherit permissions = Yes guest ok = Yes --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. 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