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From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Subject: Re: SCO updates required for SAMBA 2.2.5 & 5.04
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 10:12:52 -0700 References: <CYGCa.1081528$F1.127437@sccrnsc04> <urfpdv016dcr5pjajlkvdoh85b91e117u3@4ax.com> <tjoDa.1111249$F1.134476@sccrnsc04>

On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 15:33:45 GMT, "Jim Rendant" <netnews@attbi.com>
wrote:

>FTP is blazingly fast

In both directions?

>> Oh-oh.  Re-reading the above quote, you say you're having trouble with
>> "Samba and/or visionfs".  I hope you don't have *BOTH* Visionfs and
>> SAMBA installed simultaneously.  You can't do that as they both use IP
>> port 137 and will not co-exist on the same machine.

Do you happen to have both Samba and VisionFS installed on this
machine?

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I had one Samba box running at the speed of a snail by confusing
NETBIOS.  I had bogus entries in LMHOSTS and HOSTS on the Windoze
side, and different IP's in /etc/hosts that disagreed with the DNS
server.  The Windoze box would try to re-open the connection to the
bogus IP's and Netbios names and stall large file tranfers.  It also
showed up in very slow opens of shares on the Samba server.  

Try this on the Windoze box.  Open an MSDOS window and run:
  net view
It should take about 5-20 seconds depending on the size of your
network.  If it takes forever or longer than reasonable, then look for
confusion in the various name resolution mechanisms (WINS, DNS, hosts,
LMHOSTS, AD, LDAP, etc).

If that works, open the "Run" box on the Windoze machine and inscribe:
  \\192.168.111.111   (the IP address of the Samba server).
It should instantly open a desktop explorer window showing all the
shares on the Samba server.

Now, do it again using the netbios name of the Samba server.
  \\samba-netbios-name
If that takes forever but using the IP address is instantaneous, you
have a mess somewhere between HOSTS and LMHOSTS probably on the
Windoze side.

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