samba - Jul 2004 - RE: XP Pro timeout; we have a winner - webclient service

Thanks to Jason Balicki for the correct fix to this problem.

The 'webclient' service in Windows XP, somehow interferes with access to
the
Samba server.  With the service stopped and disabled, the clients are
working again.

Lane Beneke; IT Manager
Stephenson Millwork Co., Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lane Beneke [mailto:lane.b@smcinc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 12:42 PM
To: 'samba@lists.samba.org'
Subject: XP Pro timeout


Windows XP Pro clients are timing out when attempting to use either a file
or printer share on my Samba 3.0.5 server.

Any graphical application will fall into a seemingly endless timeout when
attempting to access the Samba server.  Print jobs will stay in the XP print
queue for as much as 1/2 hour, and then print normally.  The odd thing is
that access from any non-graphical application (cmd.exe) on the XP clients
is instantaneous.

Two XP Pro workstations (version 2002, SP1) are exhibiting this behaviour.
The rest of the company (Win2k, Win98, Win95, WinNT) is working fine.  There
are no other XP workstations on the network.

The Samba server was upgraded from 2.2.8a last Friday.  The upgrade worked
fine for two working days before this problem showing up today.

Included below are many of the specifics of my installation, and current log
file excerpts for your scrutiny.

Thanks in advance for any help you may provide.

Lane Beneke; IT Manager
Stephenson Millwork Co., Inc.

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 05:56, Lane Beneke wrote:
> Thanks to Jason Balicki for the correct fix to this problem.
> 
> The 'webclient' service in Windows XP, somehow interferes with
access to the
> Samba server.  With the service stopped and disabled, the clients are
> working again.
After some fun & games at my site, I'm looking at making this advise
more prominent.  

The other option is to make sure you *do not* run port 80 on that
server, or that Apache is running.

The worst possible situation is something that causes XP to have to
timeout, or a server that does not return 'please don't do that' in
the
form the XP wants to the WebDAV requests.

(I had an open source project called 'belts' running there, which caused
mayhem).

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet@samba.org
Authentication Developer, Samba Team            http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet@hawkerc.net
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