FYI: I found out the problem. When I specified the "netbios name" setting under my global section, the long delay went away.
Here is my original E-mail: I am new to samba and Linux. I mapped a drive from my Windows XP workstation to the /opt directory on the Linux box. When I am in Windows Explorer and I am viewing the samba drive, I can click on any directory or file on that drive, and the speed is very fast (like a local drive). If I click on another drive and click on the samba drive again after five minutes or so, my workstation hangs for about 15 seconds until the directories from the samba drive finally show up. It appears to be authenticating my connection. After the waiting period, all is fast again. On other hand if I walk away from my desk for awhile and Window Explorer is already on the samba drive, there is no hanging when I return and click on something on the samba drive. In short, my workstation hangs when initially clicking on the samba drive from Windows Explorer. Does anyone have any ideas? I have also noticed that if I go to DOS and change directory (cd), it comes up quickly, and I can even edit a file on the samba drive from DOS with no problems. If I bring up Windows Explorer immediately after editing the file in DOS, my workstation hangs again. Below is a condensed version of my smb.conf. I have also tried adding SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY to the socket options. That did not help either. [global] server string = Samba server log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 security = user socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = no [opt] comment = opt directory browseable = yes path = /opt public = no valid users = myuserid writable = yes Thanks in advance for any responses! -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
