What if you just type \\sambabox and hit enter? If that takes forever, I'd point at name resolution.
Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 4:44 PM Subject: (clug-talk) Samba + Winbind Very slow inital connection > All, > > I have set up a Samba box as a member of an NT4 domain, Using winbind. > Everything works quite well except for one annoying thing, > > When you initially try to connect to to the Samba box from Win2K or XP, > by typing in \\sambabox\share in windows explorer, It can take up to 20 > seconds for the share to be displayed. (Haven't tried from Network > Neighborhood, I just set this up on friday) > > Once a connection has been established, it's smooth sailing. > > I've checked DNS, and reverse DNS, the clients and server can all > resolve both hostnames and IP addreses. > > I've tried turning off the enum groups and users options for winbind, > and also upped the cache time to 360 seconds from 15 in smb.conf > > Our NT User database has about 3000 users and 400 groups, but winbind > queries a local domain controller (No WAN Links) and I'd think that it > is not too big. > > If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I'd appreciate it.. I can post > relevant config files and other info if requested. (Don't have easy > access to the box from home) > > Thanks. > -- > Robert Toole > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
