samba - May 2008 - XP is very slow to access Samba

I have a linux sever running it is version 2.6.20-2936.fc7xen.   The 
samba version is Version 3.0.27-0.fc7.   My problem is XP and Windows 2k 
Machines connect very slow to the mapped drives.   It does not matter if 
they are connected as the IP (\\192.168.100.32\*) or a mapped drive in 
the Windows Host file (Sambasales\*).  Has anyone else had these 
problems, and if so what did you do to fix it.   Thanks  in advance,

Yvon

I've once had a dead DNS server listed in my resolv.conf on the Samba 
server which was causing exactly this problem. The dead server was a 
local one which had had it's address changed. Try checking your listed 
DNS servers if you have any, make sure they are all alive and the server 
can access them.

try:

dig google.com @mylistedDNSserver.com

from the Samba server.


Andreas




Yvon Dubinsky wrote:
>    I have a linux sever running it is version 2.6.20-2936.fc7xen.   
> The samba version is Version 3.0.27-0.fc7.   My problem is XP and 
> Windows 2k Machines connect very slow to the mapped drives.   It does 
> not matter if they are connected as the IP (\\192.168.100.32\*) or a 
> mapped drive in the Windows Host file (Sambasales\*).  Has anyone else 
> had these problems, and if so what did you do to fix it.   Thanks  in 
> advance,
>
> Yvon