Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] windows slow to connect to sambe

[John J. <jo...@jo...>]

Hi and afaik, winbindd is the one to talk to windows Domain Controllers for AD authentication. Without it you're running in stand-alone mode. Afaik. I could be wrong.

One other element to check is the negotiations of security protocol to use. SMB/CIFS has evolved over time and I can't remember what the various Windows OS'es require and/or prefer NTLM2 vs. NTLM vs. ?!? etc. A delay _could_ be due to one protocol failing and the time it takes to fallback to the next. If you get fast transfers after the connection is established, it could be this. Just a suggestion, again, I could be very wrong.


JJ


-----Original Message-----
From: Dominic Raferd [mailto:dl...@ed...] 
Sent: 29. oktober 2010 15:17
To: dev...@li...
Subject: Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] windows slow to connect to sambe

Hi Remush

It's my tutorial so if there is something wrong I'd like to help you 
(and improve the tutorial).

I presume you mean you are running DL as a VM under VMWare Workstation 
7? I run DL in a real machine. My smb.conf is almost identical to the 
one on the web page. Connection is fast.

A couple of ideas, please try and let us know how you get on:

    * Did you select/load the VMWARE module in Setup? This gives better
      performance when running DL under VMWare VM. You can start it
      manually with '/etc/init.d/vmware start'
    * Samba has 3 daemons: smbd, nmbd and winbindd. I don't use
      winbindd, in fact I edit it out of /etc/init.d/samba. I don't know
      what it does but it is nothing useful for me and it adds lots of
      error messages to /var/log/messages. You could try removing it too
      (e.g. with 'pkill winbindd') and see if it helps.
    * Try adding:
      smb ports = 139
      to the [global] section and see if it helps. I have this line in
      mine. It prevent samba listening on port 445.
    * Can you test speed of any other network connections to the DL
      machine? A script here <http://www.alecjacobson.com/weblog/?p=635>
      might help with testing speed of ssh connections; my results,
      using cygwin from a machine on our lan to our local DL Samba
      machine are:
         Upload speed:   2648.80 kB/s
         Download speed: 10835.98 kB/s
      If you get similar speeds for ssh, but still very slow connections
      under samba, it tends to confirm that the problem lies with Samba.
    * Which version of DL are you using? [I am still using 1.4RC5, I hit
      snags when I tried 1.4RC6 and because it is a working server and I
      was short of time I stepped back to 1.4RC5 (so easy with DL!) It
      is possible (though unlikely) that there is actually a problem
      with Samba in 1.4RC6.]

Dominic

On 29/10/2010 01:54, Stephen Butler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been following this tutorial: 
> http://www.edendevelopments.co.uk/dlsetup to learn how to setup a 
> devil-linux samba file server for our community centre.
>
> At the moment, i'm setting it up using vmware 7 on my laptop, using 
> NAT network in vmware.
> It takes more than 3 minutes to connect to the samba server in vmware.
>
> I've followed the tutorial exactly so far, and was wondering if anyone 
> has any suggestions.
>
> Regards,
> Remush

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