[Samba] Long pauses.

[Thomas Mercer-Hursh, Ph.D.]

I have an environment consisting of:
* Primary Workstation running Win2KPro
* Secondary Workstation runing WinNTSP6a
* Local Win2K Advanced Server
* Local Solaris 8 system with Samba 2.0.7
* Remote HP-UX system at Site A with Samba 1.9.18p10 connected via VPN
* Remote Unixware system at Site B with Vison(?) file sharing connected via VPN
* Three remote Win2K server boxes at Site C connected via VPN
* Remote Linux, PC, and Mac on local network at Site D which access the Solaris box over VPN

On my workstation, I have SMB mounts to all of the local systems and to sites A, B, and D more or less permanently set.

In using PowerDesk (an Explorer alternative, but the same behavior seems to occur with the standard Explorer), I periodically experience very long pauses in two situations. One is in moving focus to the PowerDesk window, which I presume triggers a refresh. This is sporadic and unpredictable, often completing very quickly, but occasionally taking a minute or more. I believe that all of the long ones are when the current directory in the window is a remote one, but once this pause has started, all PowerDesk windows are likely to be frozen until the first one completes, as is any file dialog in another application.

I also have sporadic cases where double-clicking on a file name takes 30-60 seconds or more to bring up the application whereas normally it is more or less instantaneous.

The most specific traceable behavior is that if one has a PowerDesk window open on the Solaris box and is scrolling through the directories, when the directory /net comes into view, there is a very long pause and a full refresh of the window, often with a partial refresh, pause, then completion of refresh. This is highly consistent. The /net directory is empty.

All local systems are finding each other and the remote systems via host file entries with no DHCP or local DNS enabled. The physical connection to the remote systems is over a 1536/328 DSL which typically benchmarks at significant multiples of those numbers.

Any idea of what to try?





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