samba - Jul 2005 - after upgrade from 3.0.7 -> 3.0.14 extrem slow access from window s 2000

Hello list,
 
a samba server serves the home directories for about 100 Windows 2000
clients.
 
We had samba 3.0.7 (on debian woody) installed, and upgraded to 3.0.14a (we
used the sernet packages on debian sarge).
 
Now access to files from windows 2000 clients is extremely slow, especially
on .exe files. Simply selecting a exe file from windows explorer may freeze
it for 2-10 seconds. Other file types are not affected that much, although
their access is slow, too.
 
We have also some XP workstations, and they work just fine!
 
I have disabled antivirus on the clients with no change, although this
seemed for me to be the root cause. 
 
As a side note, roaming profiles do not work either on windows 2000, whereas
on winXP there is no problem! I saw a description of this problem but this
affected SP2 on windows 2000, and it did require to disable acl support for
the profile share..
Our windows clients have all service packs and hotfixes installed.
 
Help?!
 
Stefanos Karasavvidis

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Karasavvidis Stefanos wrote:
> We had samba 3.0.7 (on debian woody) installed, and upgraded to 3.0.14a (we
> used the sernet packages on debian sarge).
>  
> Now access to files from windows 2000 clients is extremely slow, especially
> on .exe files. Simply selecting a exe file from windows explorer may freeze
> it for 2-10 seconds. Other file types are not affected that much, although
> their access is slow, too.
>  
> We have also some XP workstations, and they work just fine!
I have seen the same behavior with our w2k terminal servers.
But I don't know, if it is reproducible and only on w2k and not xp.
You are right. .exe are extremely slow.

I will check, if I can make a difference from xp.

Oktay Akbal

Oktay Akbal wrote:
>On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Karasavvidis Stefanos wrote:
>
>  
>
>>We had samba 3.0.7 (on debian woody) installed, and upgraded to 3.0.14a
(we
>>used the sernet packages on debian sarge).
>> 
>>Now access to files from windows 2000 clients is extremely slow,
especially
>>on .exe files. Simply selecting a exe file from windows explorer may
freeze
>>it for 2-10 seconds. Other file types are not affected that much,
although
>>their access is slow, too.
>> 
>>We have also some XP workstations, and they work just fine!
>>    
>>
>
>I have seen the same behavior with our w2k terminal servers.
>But I don't know, if it is reproducible and only on w2k and not xp.
>You are right. .exe are extremely slow.
>
>I will check, if I can make a difference from xp.
>
>Oktay Akbal
>
>  
>
Our XP clients work with no problems at all. We experience it only on 
our w2k clients. I have searched the web now for 3 days and could not 
find any real answer. It seems I have to live with it....

Stefanos