On Wed, 03 Mar 1999, you wrote:
> I wrote
> >>I am using Mandrake 5.1 with a coax Ethernet connection between
> >>the Doze box and my Linux box, and I am having a problem after
> >>installing Samba. When I choose Network Neighborhood from Windoze98
> >>I see my Linux disk after a long (about two minutes) wait.
> >>If I doubleclick on my Linux disk, after an even longer wait,
> >>I see the public and user directories. How can I get rid of these long
> >delays?
> You responded
> >1. Networking: Try doing a lot of PINGs in each direction to see if the
> >Ethernet link is solid. (Do you have terminators at both ends?)
> >
> This ethernet has a windows 95 box at each end with the linux in the middle.
> ALL operations between the windows boxes are working correctly, as is
> FTP or Telnet to the Linux box from either end. Ping works fine everywhere,
> giving a time of 2ns. Samba is the ONLY point where delays are seen.
> I think it it something aout my Samba setup.
> Jim
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G'day Jim
I have basically the same setup here only WIN98 either side of the Linux box
and things are fine here, could you send a copy of your smb.conf, will compare
against mime?????
Michael Doyle
Adelaide, South Australia
ICQ #2635762
http://landofoz.apana.org.au
