Hi Everyone there!I don't know if it will help, but try changing the settings on the Network card of the Windows XP clients.
We have a very annoying problem since several months when browsing the local network (workgroup) from win xp clients (from win98 clients it's almost OK). The machines in the workgroup appearing very slooow (about 15-20 sec), and this value doesn't change even in the 2nd or 3rd browse. We have 1 linux (debian 2.4.21 pre 3) pc, running the samba (2.2312) server, about 15 win98 clients, 60 win xp clients, 1 win nt server. When I shutdown our win nt server, the problem doesn't change. When I shutdown our samba server, the browsing of our workgroup become very fast.
Here is my smb.conf file, perhaps You can help me to solve this problem. Thank You.
Go into advanced settings and change "Duplex" from "Auto" to "Half Duplex".
I have found that samba functions quite badly with Windows clients when network packets start getting lost.
You would only need to try the change to "half duplex" on one Windows XP client to see if it helps for that one client.
I am still investigating ways to improve samba under these packet loss conditions, but it would be nice to see if changing to "half duplex" helps others like it helped me.
Cheers James
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