On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 07:25:39PM +0100, Martin Wilson wrote:
> I am involved in the support of a digital audio editing and production system
> involving Windows 2k clients storing the audio assets on an AIX backend. The
> problem we have been experiencing is that we open audio files in the editor
> we are getting a minimum of 2 sec delay between pressing play and the start
> of the audio playback. Initial tests show that this delay can be up to 6
> seconds and that typically there are four to five conversations between the
> samba server and the win2k DC before the file is begun to be streamed to the
> client. We haven't established yet whether these conversations are all
> relevant to the client or whether they are authentication requests for other
> clients. We are using pass-through authentication. We have noticed that
> despite our samba config being the default regarding autodisconnect (ie
> never disconnect) we see the client application disconnect after a few
> seconds of inactivity within the audio editor. This leads us to suspect that
> the application is causing the disconnect by design. Also, browsing the
> samba share in windows explorer causes a permanent samba connection, and in
> this situation we do not have the delay in streaming of the audio.
I need to see a network capture trace of this please.
Thanks,
Jeremy.
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