samba connecting to linux shares hangs
 

I have a Red Hat 7.1 in a Windows NT Domain. I can access everything just fine. My problem is the initial connect it hangs for 10 to 30 seconds (somtimes timing out) then finally connects. I went through the diagnosis.txt at samba.org and found that I may have a problem with nmbd. The services is running just fine as is smbd but when I do nmblookup -B computername_samba_ it will not give me my machines IP. I think this is where my problem lies. Also when I do a netstat -a |grep 137 (looking to see if port 137 is out there) I get nothing back. So bottom line: Samba does work, It just hangs during the initial connection.

Thanks

Hello
Sounds like the same problem that I had. My win98 system hung whenever I tried to connect to samba, but the server showed up in Network Neighbourhood. The problems I blamed were...
1 Encrypted passwords. Had to put encrypt passwords = yes in smb.conf
2 Using wrong MS logon client
3 Having protocols other than TCP/IP on the windoze machine
4 Not having set up user accounts on the server properly, need a user account on the RH machine, and an account on samba. Username/PW have to be same as your windoze details. I had to create a new profile.
I used SWAT to change the samba related bits.
Jim

Thanks Jim for the reply.

I do have the 4 things you mentioned all ready done.

I think I have found something. In my /etc/hosts file I do not have the domain's WINS server listed. I will modify this later today when activity on the network slows down since I am going to stop and restart the networking services.

I will respond with the results.

Samba works
 

I went into my /etc/hosts and added the name and IP of my WINS server. Samba no longer hangs when connecting initially!