[Samba] XP needs ~30seconds to open network share

Patrick Gunerud
Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:10:33 -0000

There is not anything similar in Win2k.  If it is taking a long time to
connect then there is something else wrong.  It could be dns problems or
something else.  Try increasing the debug level for a while to see if
samba is reporting some problems.

Patrick

Mike Stewart wrote:

>Is there something similar (or the same) in win 2000 which I could disable ?
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>Mike
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>>>Try disabling the WebClient under services of the XP clients.  XP
first
>>>tries to use webdav to connect to the share when that times out it
will
>>>then use smb.
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>>If that really improves the reconnection speeds when using deadtime for
>>example, please include this tip in the samba documentation. Near the
>>sign or seal registry tips would be a good place imo.
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>>Did anyone test the difference in connection times? At my location we
>>use kixart scripts to connect to 10+ shares when logging on to the smb
>>PDC, any tips?
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>>Regards,
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