I'd be curious to know whether the behaviour for XP Pro changes if you put the following parameter into smb.conf
smb ports = 139 This tells samba not to respond to port 445 traffic. I'm assumming that samba is not participating in an active directory. Mark > Sorry if this has been covered before. > > I setup a new Samba server using RedHat EL 3, and samba 3.0.2-6.3E (the > version that comes with Redhat). > > We were seeing an intermittant 20 seconcd delay when grabbing a > directory listing, but only from XP, win 2k was fine. > > I couldn't completely nail down when the delay occured but it seemed to > be when the directory or share hadn't been accessed in a while, ~15mins > ??. There was never a problem or delay seeing the samba server on the > browse list. > > I turned off iptables and the delay has been drastically reduced, now > down to 2 secs, which is acceptable. > > Obviously I'd like to turn iptables back on. > > I'm wondering if there are any special port openings or other iptables > settings that need adjustments with XP; or if there are adjustments I > need to make to the XP clients. I've already tried the > RemoteComputer\NameSpace\ regkey fix to no avail. > > It's a very basic iptables setup. I opened up the standard samba ports. > I've listed the output of 'iptables --list' below. > > Any ideas? > > TTIA > > /randoms/ > > 'iptables --list' output : > > Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere > > Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere > > Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > > Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references) > target prot opt source destination > ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere > ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp any > ACCEPT ipv6-crypt-- anywhere anywhere > ACCEPT ipv6-auth-- anywhere anywhere > ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state > RELATED,ESTABLISHED > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW > tcp dpt:netbios-ns > ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW > udp dpt:netbios-ns > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW > tcp dpt:netbios-dgm > ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW > udp dpt:netbios-dgm > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW > tcp dpt:netbios-ssn > ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW > udp dpt:netbios-ssn > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW > tcp dpt:microsoft-ds > ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW > udp dpt:microsoft-ds > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW > tcp dpt:497 > ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW > udp dpt:497 > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW > tcp dpt:ssh > REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere reject-with > icmp-host-prohibited > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
