Serious lag connecting to samba
After a number of weeks trying to solve this strange issue, I thought perhaps someone could point me in the right direction.
Our network is composed of a Windows 2003 domain controller. All workstations on the network are members of this windows domain. Then, there is a standalone samba 3 server, which is not a member of the domain. This is where the problem arises.
Any time any of the computers connect to this box, there is a serious lag, or delay before the server becomes available. For example, if someone tries to access the samba server via a UNC path, there is a 20-30 second delay before access is granted. If drive mappings are set up, any time "My Computer" is accessed (after a period of long inactivity), it lags for about 20-30 seconds before all the drives pop up.
My guess is that windows is waiting for a timeout because of incompatible communication of some kind. I've tried samba 2 and samba 3 with the same results. The CPU and memory resource on linux isn't to blame....the cpu averages less than 1% usage. If I connect to samba using a linux client, I don't get the lag at all.
I tried joining the linux/samba to the domain, but the "net join" command isn't found....I'm lost (there's another thread for that problem).
Is there a samba setting or a windows setting I can change to fix this lag? It's becoming a serious problem.
Thanks in advance, as usual.
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