samba - Aug 2005 - 3.0.7 - NT Create AndX Response, Error:, QUERY_PATH_INFO, Error:

I noticed your comments on the samba web site about the performance
issue you were experiencing with the delay in opening files.  I am
having similar issues when accessing files off the server, I was
wondering if you ever found a resolution or cause to the problem.  The
strange thing is that I have two identical computers and am experiencing
the issue only on one. 

Sincerely,

Frank Damen
IT Analyst

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From: "Damen, Frank (damenf)"
<damenf@UCMAIL.UC.EDU>
>I noticed your comments on the samba web site about the performance
> issue you were experiencing with the delay in opening files.  I am
> having similar issues when accessing files off the server, I was
> wondering if you ever found a resolution or cause to the problem.  The
> strange thing is that I have two identical computers and am experiencing
> the issue only on one.
>
Frank:

Is the one you are experiencing problems with a laptop with mapped drives 
for 2 different servers?? Like home and work?? I had all problems solved in 
3.0.14a, but 3.0.20 has brought new challenges with printer support, but 
file access is flawless. If you are using windows clients make sure you 
don't have any stray drives mapped that are not mapped to the current 
server. This drives Samba nuts with the AndX chatter. Also, delete all of 
the stray network locations under the My Network Places. Also, printers can 
kill you. If you have a laptop with priters configured for work and home, 
when you connect at home if your default printer is set for work, this also 
creates the chatter. I don't fully understand it yet, but by process of 
elimination I know what makes it better and worse.

JT, Gerry:

(A follow up to our call JT)

    I'm looking into this printer deal. I installed 3.0.20-1 on my SuSE 9.0 
box and it killed printing to the laserjet 4 attached to lp0 on the SuSE 
box. What is strange is the clients are dual-boot and if I boot linux, the 
clients have no problem printing to the lj4 on the suse box. Nothing else 
changed. No changes to smb.conf or cupsd.conf. (all have been shut down and 
restarted along with nmb) So it is definately a smb win XP issue -- feels 
like an authentication issue. Same loop, tcp, smb and dcerp packets. Take XP 
out of the equation and everything works flawlessly (funny how that works). 
What is strange is that after the 3.0.20 update, it also killed my pdf-gen 
on the 9.0 box that is nothing more than a share that passes ps to the 
ps2pdf13 utility. Any thoughts?? Anything I can send you??


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