Can you give us a decription of your network topology?
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:47:38 GMT, Backward Thinker
<backwardthinker@juno.com> wrote:
>
>
> > I am working with a Samba 3.x server, and for some
> > reason, it takes a century for it to respond on
> > the network. When it does respond everything
> > works, but he lag is horrible. We are running a
> > Novell 4.2 network, and are using a Winderz DNS
> > server. This system is a test box, but I have
> > noticed the same behaviour from the live linux box
> > as well.
>
> Do these lag times vary wildly, or are they fairly
> consistent? Is it only when you first connect? If
> not, what actions tend to trigger the lag
> (connection, file writes, but not file reads, etc)?
> How is samba handling authentication? security = user?
> security = domain? ads? How is network traffic
> otherwise (ftp, etc)?
>
> Since it's test, I'd stop the "normal" smbd service and
> fire up smbd -i -d 2. Then connect with your client and
> see what's happening before these delays. If nothing
> useful shows up, you can try -d 3, and so on. Anything
> above -d 5 will probably not help you for this problem.
> If no luck, then strace the smbd -i and watch for timeouts.
>
> GL,
> ~ Daniel
>
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