Kevin, > share by typing its static IP address: \\192.168.0.13\sharename. With this form of the connection UNC Windows will only ever use IPv4, IPv6 will not be involved.
Regards, David ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr David Holder CEng FIET MIEEE Erion Ltd, Oakleigh, Upper Sutherland Road, Halifax, HX3 8NT Reception: +44 (0)1422 207000 Direct Dial: +44 (0)131 2026317 Cell: +44 (0) 7768 456831 Registered in England and Wales. Registered Number 3521142 VAT Number: GB 698 3633 78 Kevin Keane wrote: > It may also be network discovery, and/or an IPv6 issue. Windows 7 tries to > default to IPv6. There is no NETBIOS or WINS in IPv6, so DNS is pretty much > mandatory (there also is Network Discovery, which is basically UPnP renamed). > > My guess is that in your case, Windows 7 first tries to resolve 192.168.0.13 > to an IPv6 address using DNS. Then it probably tries to look for it with > UPnP. Only when those two fail would it use IPv4. > > Disabling IPv6 is really a bad idea, but with Samba it may be your only > option. > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: samba-boun...@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba- >> boun...@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of smba...@gmx.com >> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 3:52 PM >> To: samba@lists.samba.org; michele.petra...@unipex.it >> Subject: Re: [Samba] Long Delay on Fresh Windows 7 Clients >> >> Thank you very much Michele. Because it's not trivial for me to >> introduce DNS for the local Samba server, I just tried accessing the >> share by typing its static IP address: \\192.168.0.13\sharename. >> >> I still get the same delay. >> >> Perhaps it's not DNS resolution that's causing that? >> >> Thanks, >> Daniel >> >> mich...@unipex.it wrote: >> smba...@gmx.com wrote: >> >>> When I type \\sambahost\sharename, a prompt for the username and >>> password will eventually appear (and let me authenticate >>> successfully) but it takes almost forever (i.e. 1-5 minutes) until >>> that prompt dialog box appears. >>> >>> >> Last week week my customer call me for the same problem where I >> installed an "old" version of samba (like yours) without local dns. >> After some tests, a simple bind9 + master local zone and reversed one >> solved the problem. >> I don't know further technical details, but I presume that 7 _need_ a >> reply from a dns. If it not find a good one, before gone to timeout and >> switch to wins resolution, it took *a lot of time* >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
