I have tried this with a bunch of different versions of Samba, starting somewhere in the 3.0.1 series. I am currently running 3.0.34 on several Gentoo servers, all showing the same problem. I am almost positive it is not a Samba issue, but I was just hoping that someone may have experienced it and knows if there is a solution. When I have the current Novell Netware client installed on XP machines, any initial browsing or opening of connected Samba drives is painfully slow. Slow as in 20-30 seconds. The hourglass appears and things just seem to lock for that time. Then, magically, things start working normally. Once I browse or connect to the server, it works perfectly for a $foo amount of time. If I step away, come back and try to read a drive, browsing it then comes to a halt and freezes again. Now, if I remove the Novell client completely, things work _perfectly_. I can browse and connect, disconnect, reconnect, the works, all at normal speed. I know the simple answer is that it is "something with the client," but I was wondering if anyone had any better insight. It's making my life miserable :) -- Matthew Daubenspeck Gentoo Linux i686 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5420 @ 2.50GHz 15:11:47 up 36 days, 1:05, 5 users, load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.00
On 7/2/2009, Matthew Daubenspeck (matt@oddprocess.org) wrote:> When I have the current Novell Netware client installed on XP machines, > any initial browsing or opening of connected Samba drives is painfully > slow. Slow as in 20-30 seconds. The hourglass appears and things just > seem to lock for that time. Then, magically, things start working > normally. Once I browse or connect to the server, it works perfectly for > a $foo amount of time. If I step away, come back and try to read a > drive, browsing it then comes to a halt and freezes again. > > Now, if I remove the Novell client completely, things work _perfectly_. > I can browse and connect, disconnect, reconnect, the works, all at > normal speed.A shot in the dark, but there was a bug reported on the NOD32 forums dealing specificalyy with Novell Clients... So, maybe this is an AV issue? -- Best regards, Charles
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 07:41:12AM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:> > Now, if I remove the Novell client completely, things work _perfectly_. > > I can browse and connect, disconnect, reconnect, the works, all at > > normal speed. > > A shot in the dark, but there was a bug reported on the NOD32 forums > dealing specificalyy with Novell Clients... > > So, maybe this is an AV issue?I have no AntiVirus software on the client PCs.... -- Matthew Daubenspeck http://oddprocess.org Gentoo Linux i686 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5420 @ 2.50GHz 09:42:53 up 39 days, 19:36, 5 users, load average: 0.15, 0.08, 0.01
On 7/6/2009 9:43 AM, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:>>> Now, if I remove the Novell client completely, things work _perfectly_. >>> I can browse and connect, disconnect, reconnect, the works, all at >>> normal speed.>> A shot in the dark, but there was a bug reported on the NOD32 forums >> dealing specificalyy with Novell Clients... >> >> So, maybe this is an AV issue?> I have no AntiVirus software on the client PCs....Like I said, it was a shot in the dark... sorry, no other ideas... -- Best regards, Charles
Il giorno lun 06 lug 2009 15:51:33 CEST, Charles Marcus ha scritto:> On 7/6/2009 9:43 AM, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: >>>> Now, if I remove the Novell client completely, things work _perfectly_. >>>> I can browse and connect, disconnect, reconnect, the works, all at >>>> normal speed. > >>> A shot in the dark, but there was a bug reported on the NOD32 forums >>> dealing specificalyy with Novell Clients... >>> >>> So, maybe this is an AV issue? > >> I have no AntiVirus software on the client PCs.... > > Like I said, it was a shot in the dark... sorry, no other ideas...i have the same problem but i have trendmicro offiscan antivirus (on windows client, but no av on samba server) i have tried to install the last novell client (4.91 sp5) but without result