On Sat, 31 May 2003, Daniel Zeiss wrote: > Dear All, > > my Samba installation (see below) is > > * _very slow_ during logon from a Win XP Workstation, > > * one Workstation produces a _high load_ of 97% on the server for ~10 > secs on a P4 2.4Ghz 512MB RAM system > > * makes it impossible to use _redirected folders_, because stupid > Offline Files and syncronisation kicks in. > > Can you help me? > > > Now to the _details_: > > I am running Samba 2.2.8a on a Debian Woody server (P4 2.4 Ghz, 512MB > RAM, IDE RAID) which uses OpenLDAP 2.0.23 as database backend. All on a > switched FastEthernet. > > User login (encrypted passwords), adding workstation to domain, normal > file sharing, getting Default Profile for new users, running logon > script works all great, but > > during login of a user to a Workstation the process is very slow. The > default profile which gets copied is just 8MB, so its not data transfer > which is slowing it down. > Also when a users logs in on the samba server the load rises to 97%. > This is just on a setup with one server and one workstation. I am > planning of deploying 60 clients which will apparently not work with > this setup. > > I have now clue on how to trace the problem. Can you help? > > Third problem is with the roaming profiles. The profiles itself work > great, just I wish to redirect the Personal folder. I read the HowTo on > the SambaDocuWebpage finding the UserShellFolder directive. I did a > NTConfig.POL file with poledit.exe setting this folder to > %LOGONSERVER%\%USERNAME% and also setting some permission stuff. > The file gets read because the permission stuff is done and the Personal > Folder is redirected to the users homedrive on the samba server, BUT > this activates the OfflineFiles mode of WinXP and WinXP tries to > syncronize the files on users logoff. > I found a way to prevent this by setting in some NetCache registry > values the "Enabled" switch to 0, so the syncronisation doesnt take > place but still the Personal Folder will carry the symbol of a folder > were syncronisation is enabled. Also WinXP seems to transfer constant > data with the samba server which increases network and cpu load. > > Is there a better way of doing it? > Is there a better way of doing policies than poledit.exe? > > On sambaXP many people spoke about the new Samba Howto. Which one is it?
It is available in rapidly changing form from: http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf > Is it already released? Nope. It will be part of Samba-3 when it is released. - John T. > > Thank you in advance > > Daniel > > P.S.: Do I see it correctly that the GPO on a Win2000/XP ADS setup are > just specific NTConfig.POL files applied to a special workstation or > group of workstations? > > -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba