I do not think that it is neither intended by MS nor normal to take so long.
I am using roaming profiles in a network with Vista64Business clients. Although the users (mainly image processing work on a professional level) tend to have rather huge user profiles (100MB-2 GB is normal, the max what I had seen was 32GB), those login/logouts are actually speedy compared to the Win7-64-pro userprofile that I have just freshly created and that is only a few kilobytes in size. A second thing is that the problem concerns only the initial creation of the Win7 profile; it takes approx. 40 minutes). All subsequent logins/logouts are very fast and take approx. only 10-20 seconds. The comparison of those values shows that it is more but just an delay because of the creation of some kilobytes of files. The third thing is that I am having the same problem with programs that I start. Programs that are installed locally on the client! When I am starting them for the first time, I am having a delay of 5-10 Minutes until the program starts. The subsequent times I start the program, it starts instantly. I am guessing that the problem has something to do with DNS or other network-layer issues. Or maybe it is the Client searching for something on the Samba server that is not existing?? It seems like the workstation Is sending some query to samba and then waits ages for a timeout or something. There is almost no network traffic the time that I am waiting.... Tom -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
