I have tried this with a bunch of different versions of Samba, starting somewhere in the 3.0.1 series. I am currently running 3.0.34 on several Gentoo servers, all showing the same problem.
I am almost positive it is not a Samba issue, but I was just hoping that someone may have experienced it and knows if there is a solution. When I have the current Novell Netware client installed on XP machines, any initial browsing or opening of connected Samba drives is painfully slow. Slow as in 20-30 seconds. The hourglass appears and things just seem to lock for that time. Then, magically, things start working normally. Once I browse or connect to the server, it works perfectly for a $foo amount of time. If I step away, come back and try to read a drive, browsing it then comes to a halt and freezes again. Now, if I remove the Novell client completely, things work _perfectly_. I can browse and connect, disconnect, reconnect, the works, all at normal speed. I know the simple answer is that it is "something with the client," but I was wondering if anyone had any better insight. It's making my life miserable :) -- Matthew Daubenspeck Gentoo Linux i686 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5420 @ 2.50GHz 15:11:47 up 36 days, 1:05, 5 users, load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.00 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
