Re: [Samba] SLOW connections
Well, after a bit more hunting on my part (armed with the errors I noted in my last email), I tripped over the following article: http://www.faqchest.com/linux/samba-l/smb-01/smb-0109/smb01090215_24396.html (For the lazy of heart, essentially it discusses the woes of plaintext passwords and Windows 9x, and urges the use of "encrypt passwords = yes") So, I switched to encrypted passwords (using the process indicated in the article), stripped the registry entry on the windows client (and rebooted) and gave it a shot. It worked... No more slowness... :-) I suppose I could have changed my linux password to an all upper case password. Thanks anyways... Hopefully this benefits someone else! FjK Collins, Kevin wrote: Fred: I don't know if this is it, but do you have a DNS server or a HOSTS file on the Windows machine(s) pointing to the IP of the Linux box? If not, here is what (I think) is happening: Windows 98 will try to contact a DNS server to locate the network machine and fail with a time out (which takes several seconds). Then it will revert to the WINS service and find the Linux box. Windows cache's WINS resolutions and that's why subsequent connections are "peppy". My forward look-up zone was "fubar"ed on my DNS server here at work and my Windows machines exhibited the exact same symptoms as you describe. I fixed the zone file and everything began to operate properly. If this isn't it, I'm sorry for feeding you bad information. :-) Kevin L. Collins -Original Message- From: Fred Kuipers [mailto:fred@;kuipers.dhs.org] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 3:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] SLOW connections Hi everyone, I have a small home network with a Samba 2.2.3 server on Linux serving up my files and printers. However, from windows machines (win 98) connecting to a share takes an annoyingly long time (in the order of 10s of seconds) Connecting from a linux box is very quick. I have configured Windows 98 to fully reconnect the share on logon. If I don't, Windows Explorer hangs all over the place (even when simply loading it and it hits the network). After the initial connection, everything is pretty quick. I have run through all the diagnostics and I have no clue why Windows could be so slow connecting. Note on hardware: 10 Mbit network, 1.2 GHz and 350 Mhz windows machines connecting to a 500 mhz linux machine (with 2 eth interfaces)... No CPU usage issues on linux server and full network availability during connections. I have no connectivity troubles with the network. Any thots?? Is this a silly little configuration problem? Thanks in advance. FjK Please Reply All - I'm not on the list. > grep -v "^[;#]" /etc/samba/smb.conf | grep -v "^$" [global] workgroup = KUIPERS_HOME server string = Samba Server %v printcap name = lpstat load printers = yes printing = cups log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 security = share encrypt passwords = no smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = no unix password sync = no map to guest = never password level = 0 null passwords = no allow hosts = 192.168.0. os level = 33 preferred master = yes wins support = yes interfaces = eth1 lo dead time = 0 debug level = 0 status = yes [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes available = yes public = no user = fred val only user = no preexec close = no root preexec close = no [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = yes public = yes writable = no printable = yes create mode = 0700 print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer dr ivers. available = yes [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers browseable = yes read only = yes write list = @adm root [archive] available = yes browseable = yes path = /home/archive public = no guest only = no writable = yes user = fred val only user = no preexec close = no root preexec close = no valid users = fred val force group = users create mask = 775 [MyDocuments] available = yes browseable = yes path = /home/MyDocuments public = no guest only = no writable = yes user = fred val only user = no preexec close = no root preexec close = no valid users = fred val force group = users create mask = 775 [web] available = yes browseable = yes path = /home/httpd public = no guest only = no writable = no allow hosts = 192.168.0. user = fred val only user = no preexec close = no root preexec close = no force group = users -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- wily: something horrible happened:: Success [1]+ Aborted
Re: [Samba] SLOW connections
Thanks for the quick response. I do have a DNS server that resolves the hostname of the server correctly. (For example pinging the samba server by name works correctly and quickly.) I should point out that if I have two network connections to the linux box that are restored on login BOTH connection attempts are slow. Furthermore later attempts to map/browse other shares on this machine also experience the same kind of delay. This problem isn't just the first one (otherwise I wouldn't have posted, knowing there are name resolution delays). I checked log. to see if there were any clues there, and here's what I found: ... [2002/11/01 16:10:23, 0] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(827) smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User val ! [2002/11/01 16:10:25, 0] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(827) smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User val ! [2002/11/01 16:10:28, 0] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(827) smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User nobody ! [2002/11/01 16:10:30, 0] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(827) smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User nobody ! [2002/11/01 16:10:32, 0] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(827) smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User fred ! [2002/11/01 16:10:35, 0] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(827) smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User fred ! [2002/11/01 16:10:37, 0] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(827) smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User val ! [2002/11/01 16:10:39, 0] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(827) smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User val ! This is what resulted from mapping a drive as user val to her home share. It successfully connected but what the heck is it doing? Needless to say, the log is filled with similar... Any help? FjK Collins, Kevin wrote: Fred: I don't know if this is it, but do you have a DNS server or a HOSTS file on the Windows machine(s) pointing to the IP of the Linux box? If not, here is what (I think) is happening: Windows 98 will try to contact a DNS server to locate the network machine and fail with a time out (which takes several seconds). Then it will revert to the WINS service and find the Linux box. Windows cache's WINS resolutions and that's why subsequent connections are "peppy". My forward look-up zone was "fubar"ed on my DNS server here at work and my Windows machines exhibited the exact same symptoms as you describe. I fixed the zone file and everything began to operate properly. If this isn't it, I'm sorry for feeding you bad information. :-) Kevin L. Collins -Original Message- From: Fred Kuipers [mailto:fred@;kuipers.dhs.org] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 3:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] SLOW connections Hi everyone, I have a small home network with a Samba 2.2.3 server on Linux serving up my files and printers. However, from windows machines (win 98) connecting to a share takes an annoyingly long time (in the order of 10s of seconds) Connecting from a linux box is very quick. I have configured Windows 98 to fully reconnect the share on logon. If I don't, Windows Explorer hangs all over the place (even when simply loading it and it hits the network). After the initial connection, everything is pretty quick. I have run through all the diagnostics and I have no clue why Windows could be so slow connecting. Note on hardware: 10 Mbit network, 1.2 GHz and 350 Mhz windows machines connecting to a 500 mhz linux machine (with 2 eth interfaces)... No CPU usage issues on linux server and full network availability during connections. I have no connectivity troubles with the network. Any thots?? Is this a silly little configuration problem? Thanks in advance. FjK Please Reply All - I'm not on the list. > grep -v "^[;#]" /etc/samba/smb.conf | grep -v "^$" [global] workgroup = KUIPERS_HOME server string = Samba Server %v printcap name = lpstat load printers = yes printing = cups log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 security = share encrypt passwords = no smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = no unix password sync = no map to guest = never password level = 0 null passwords = no allow hosts = 192.168.0. os level = 33 preferred master = yes wins support = yes interfaces = eth1 lo dead time = 0 debug level = 0 status = yes [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes available = yes public = no user = fred val only user = no preexec close = no root preexec close = no [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = yes public = yes writable = no printable = yes create mode = 0700 print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r
RE: [Samba] SLOW connections
Fred: I don't know if this is it, but do you have a DNS server or a HOSTS file on the Windows machine(s) pointing to the IP of the Linux box? If not, here is what (I think) is happening: Windows 98 will try to contact a DNS server to locate the network machine and fail with a time out (which takes several seconds). Then it will revert to the WINS service and find the Linux box. Windows cache's WINS resolutions and that's why subsequent connections are "peppy". My forward look-up zone was "fubar"ed on my DNS server here at work and my Windows machines exhibited the exact same symptoms as you describe. I fixed the zone file and everything began to operate properly. If this isn't it, I'm sorry for feeding you bad information. :-) Kevin L. Collins > -Original Message- > From: Fred Kuipers [mailto:fred@;kuipers.dhs.org] > Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 3:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Samba] SLOW connections > > > Hi everyone, > > I have a small home network with a Samba 2.2.3 server on > Linux serving > up my files and printers. However, from windows machines (win 98) > connecting to a share takes an annoyingly long time (in the > order of 10s > of seconds) Connecting from a linux box is very quick. I have > configured Windows 98 to fully reconnect the share on logon. > If I don't, > Windows Explorer hangs all over the place (even when simply > loading it > and it hits the network). After the initial connection, > everything is > pretty quick. I have run through all the diagnostics and I > have no clue > why Windows could be so slow connecting. > > Note on hardware: 10 Mbit network, 1.2 GHz and 350 Mhz > windows machines > connecting to a 500 mhz linux machine (with 2 eth > interfaces)... No CPU > usage issues on linux server and full network availability during > connections. I have no connectivity troubles with the network. > > Any thots?? Is this a silly little configuration problem? > > Thanks in advance. > > FjK > > Please Reply All - I'm not on the list. > > > > grep -v "^[;#]" /etc/samba/smb.conf | grep -v "^$" > > [global] > workgroup = KUIPERS_HOME > server string = Samba Server %v > printcap name = lpstat > load printers = yes > printing = cups > log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m > max log size = 50 > security = share > encrypt passwords = no > smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd > socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 > dns proxy = no > unix password sync = no > map to guest = never > password level = 0 > null passwords = no > allow hosts = 192.168.0. > os level = 33 > preferred master = yes > wins support = yes > interfaces = eth1 lo > dead time = 0 > debug level = 0 > status = yes > [homes] > comment = Home Directories > browseable = no > writable = yes > available = yes > public = no > user = fred val > only user = no > preexec close = no > root preexec close = no > [printers] > comment = All Printers > path = /var/spool/samba > browseable = yes > public = yes > writable = no > printable = yes > create mode = 0700 > print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side > printer dr > ivers. > available = yes > [print$] > path = /var/lib/samba/printers > browseable = yes > read only = yes > write list = @adm root > [archive] > available = yes > browseable = yes > path = /home/archive > public = no > guest only = no > writable = yes > user = fred val > only user = no > preexec close = no > root preexec close = no > valid users = fred val > force group = users > create mask = 775 > [MyDocuments] > available = yes > browseable = yes > path = /home/MyDocuments > public = no > guest only = no > writable = yes > user = fred val > only user = no > preexec close = no > root preexec close = no > valid users = fred val > force group = users > create mask = 775 > [web] > available = yes > browseable = yes > path = /home/httpd > public = no > guest only = no > writable = no > allow hosts = 192.168.0. > user = fred val > only user = no > preexec close = no > root preexec close = no > force group = users > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > smime.p7s Description: application/pkcs7-signature
