Maybe someone has been through this already and can provide a
solution... I don't see anything in my Google searches or in the
O'Reilly troubleshooting section.
Running 2.2.8a with LDAP on Redhat 9, up to date with all the RHN patches.
Samba coordinates browse lists with another Samba box on a remote
network (via a VPN).
All workstations on both subnets use my local Samba box for WINS, as
mandated by dhcpd on each subnet.
I have the network neighbourhood browsing thing aced across the subnets.
Doing WINS lookups on the Samba box locally with the nmblookup command
gives instant response.
Windows workstations have mapped drives to the Samba box. They open
instantly.
If I try to browse the shares of any machine on the network via network
neighbourhood, I see a 10-15 second delay before I get a result. I get
the same delay if I try to ping any machine on the network by name,
using the MS-DOS window. If I issue a 'net view \\machinename' command,
I get the results instantly. It's just the network neighbourhood
browsing and pinging by machine name functions that exhibit this delay!
Winpopup seems OK. It looks to me like the workstations revert to a
broadcast method of finding the requested machine, but only for these
commands. But I really don't know what the issue is!
The network is mixed Win2K and Win98/ME boxes. All seem to have the
same problem.
I had been running an older Mandrake box with a newish version of Samba
(several versions over the years) in place of this present server. I
did NOT see this problem then. I copied my settings from the old server
to the new one (smb.conf) and soon noted the problem. This is what
makes me think it's a configuration issue, but from what I can see,
everything is correct. Firewalling is not active.
wins.dat is being kept up to date. So is browse.dat.
Any ideas? At this point, I'd settle for suggestions of where to look,
but an actual solution would be gold!
The 'global' portion of my smb.conf follows:
#======================= Global Settings ==============================[global]
workgroup = TRUEKAM
server string = Vader
netbios name = VADER
hosts allow = 192.168.0. 192.168.1. 192.168.100. 192.168.200. 127.
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
# LDAP settings for user lookup and auth.
ldap admin dn = "cn=SAMBA,o=true.ca,dc=true,dc=ca"
ldap server = localhost
ldap ssl = off
ldap port = 389
ldap suffix = "ou=People,ou=Accounts,o=true.ca,dc=true,dc=ca"
ldap filter = "(&(uid=%u)(objectclass=sambaAccount))"
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n *changed*
# network performance
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
os level = 99
preferred master = yes
domain master = yes
local master = yes
name resolve order = wins host bcast
domain master = yes
remote browse sync = 192.168.100.253
remote announce = 192.168.0.255
wins support = yes
wins proxy = yes
dns proxy = no
#============================ Share Definitions
=======================<snip>
Thanks!
Brock Nanson
