Gerald
On the XP box, fire up a command prompt and do:
ipconfig /all
You should see something like:
=====================================Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : NODDY
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : gkn-whl.co.uk
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Peer-Peer
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : gkn-whl.co.uk
Ethernet adapter eh1:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : gkn-whl.co.uk
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) Advanced Network Services
Virtual Adapter #9
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-08-C7-D2-F0-8A
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.21.50.81
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 172.21.0.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.18.12.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.21.12.1
172.18.12.1
192.168.255.254
Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 172.16.40.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 19 July 2002 15:16:01
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 27 July 2002 09:30:01
=====================================
Now I am using DHCP assigned addresses. You may not be so yours maybe a bit
different. Now, do you have an entry for the Primary WINS server ? If so, is
the Linux box registered with it ? Check smb.conf for a line:
wins server = <ip address of WINS server>
Right, check it:
nbtstat -a <name of Samba box>
The response should be almost instantaneous. If it isn't then name
resolution/WINS server isn't right.
A quick check of the WINS server can be done by (on Linux box):
#nmblookup -R -U <ip of WINS> <ip of Samba box>
(man nmblookup for details on the switches)
If all of this seems a little confusing, it's because it is !!! If this
doesn't help, could you send me:
IP of WINS server
smb.conf from Samba
Output of ipconfig /all from XP
Incidently, have a look at:
http://www.m85.com/techdocs/xptweaks.html
I have dramatically lowered the amount of memory my XP Pro uses and it still
works fine with NT/2000/NetWare and Samba. There's some good advice in
there but go easy, you may go a little far so keep a log of what you do ...
Cheers
Jon Gerdes
>>> Gerald Heinig <gheinig@syskonnect.de> 22/07/2002 12:59:12
>>>
Hi all,
please excuse my posting what is probably an FAQ, but getting the mail
archives is excruciatingly slow (~70 bytes/sec).
I have an XP professional box attached to a Samba server. It works
ok-ish (I can actually access everything) but everything is painfully
slow. Attaching a network drive takes at least 10 seconds, sometimes
longer. Word takes AGES to load (> 15 seconds before anything happens)
and I can't save files to a network driver within Word; I have to "save
as" to a local disk and then copy over to the network drive.
Strangely enough, even accessing stuff on a _local_ drive is slow with a
network connection, although I'm not actually writing to the network
drive.
Our admin says we have a WINS server running (for what it's worth...).
Could some kind soul enlighten me as to what might be the problem? It's
no fun trying to work like this :-(
Cheers,
Gerald
PS. Is there any mailing list archive that's searchable, or a mailing
list archive mirror? The main site is glacially slow from here.
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