I've got this problem on xp machines where when you are trying to browse a shared drive it takes a realy long time to view it but once you have connected your off and running. Is there a way I can get this to speed up. People are complaining that there system is freezing when the try and browse the shared folder. They just don't give it enough time to get connected. Anyone got an answer for this. I've tried updating to the latest version of samba but that didn't fix the problem. Thanks for any help. Matthew Scarrow ComIT Solutions Inc. www.comit.ca Paris: 519-442-0100 Brantford: 519-750-0933
Home many users and what kind of Hard Drives in your server? -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Scarrow [mailto:mscarrow@comit.ca] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 5:50 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] Slow Windows XP shared browsing. I've got this problem on xp machines where when you are trying to browse a shared drive it takes a realy long time to view it but once you have connected your off and running. Is there a way I can get this to speed up. People are complaining that there system is freezing when the try and browse the shared folder. They just don't give it enough time to get connected. Anyone got an answer for this. I've tried updating to the latest version of samba but that didn't fix the problem. Thanks for any help. Matthew Scarrow ComIT Solutions Inc. www.comit.ca Paris: 519-442-0100 Brantford: 519-750-0933 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 18:40, Matthew Scarrow wrote:> I tried blocking 445 tcp and udp and then tested but it didn't fix the > problem. Thanksi was saying unblock... you could also try disabling netbios over tcp in on the client to see what that does (just to see if this is the problem) really no speculation substitutes for careful reading of the logs.... brad
I've got some more info. I've tried Fooling around with Netbios setting and some of the dns services on xp client but nothing seemed to work. What I did find to work is this when the window freezes. Open task Manager and end task on My Computer. Then click file and Run New and type explorer to load up the desktop again becuase you ended it. Then browse the share and everything is good. Don't understand it and that's realy not a fix for the problem. Just thought I'd let you know. Matthew Scarrow ComIT Solutions Inc. www.comit.ca Paris: 519-442-0100 Brantford: 519-750-0933
Have you tried to disable the WebClient service on the XP clients? This is a very common problem of having the WebClient enabled. No one seems to pick up on it. Disabling the WebClient solved my problem of slow connects to shares from an XP client. Patrick Matthew Scarrow wrote:>I've got this problem on xp machines where when you are trying to browse a >shared drive it takes a realy long time to view it but once you have >connected your off and running. Is there a way I can get this to speed up. >People are complaining that there system is freezing when the try and browse >the shared folder. They just don't give it enough time to get connected. > >Anyone got an answer for this. I've tried updating to the latest version of >samba but that didn't fix the problem. Thanks for any help. > > >Matthew Scarrow >ComIT Solutions Inc. >www.comit.ca >Paris: 519-442-0100 >Brantford: 519-750-0933 > > >
Thus spake Matthew Scarrow (mscarrow@comit.ca) [11/08/03 17:50]:> I've got this problem on xp machines where when you are trying to browse a > shared drive it takes a realy long time to view it but once you have > connected your off and running. Is there a way I can get this to speed up. > People are complaining that there system is freezing when the try and browse > the shared folder. They just don't give it enough time to get connected. > > Anyone got an answer for this. I've tried updating to the latest version of > samba but that didn't fix the problem. Thanks for any help.We had the same problem, and at least one contributing factor was that EAP was turned on. If you go into the properties of your network, then go to the 'Authentication' tab, you can turn off EAP in there. Make sure that *all* checkboxes are unchecked and not just greyed -- apparently, it stays enabled if the box is checked and greyed.
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Matthew Scarrow wrote:> I've got this problem on xp machines where when you are trying to browse a > shared drive it takes a realy long time to view it but once you have > connected your off and running. Is there a way I can get this to speed up. > People are complaining that there system is freezing when the try and browse > the shared folder. They just don't give it enough time to get connected. > > Anyone got an answer for this. I've tried updating to the latest version of > samba but that didn't fix the problem. Thanks for any help.Configure WINS correctly! Refer http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf chapter 10. - John T.> > > Matthew Scarrow > ComIT Solutions Inc. > www.comit.ca > Paris: 519-442-0100 > Brantford: 519-750-0933 > >-- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org