Well, we finally appear to have resolved this issue in our environment. For the benefits of others, here’s what we discovered and how we fixed the problem: To try and gain further insight into what was occurring before/during/after the delays we used Wireshark on a client machine to capture/analyse network traffic whilst that client attempted … Read more
Commenting out the printers section actually does nothing, add this to your smb.conf: load printers = no printing = bsd printcap name = /dev/null disable spoolss = yes (spoolss is not a typo)
The “.DS_Store” files are used by the Mac OS Finder to store info about Finder window settings for a folder. They will appear in each folder that you visit (browse to) with the Finder. You normally do not see these files in Finder (they are “hidden”, like any *NIX alike dot files) To prevent the … Read more
if you type the command net use \\SERVERNAME /u:DOMAIN\USER you will be prompted for the password of that user to be used when accessing that server
This command is a very little known secret of Samba. It returns IP adresses of all Samba servers in one’s own broadcast domain: nmblookup __SAMBA__ This one returns a list of all NetBIOS names and their aliases of all Samba servers in the neighbourhood (it does a ‘node status query’): nmblookup -S __SAMBA__ This one … Read more
Ports 137-139 are for NetBios/Name resolution. Without it you will have to access machines by IP address opposed to NetBIOS name. Example \\192.168.1.100\share_name opposed to \\my_file_server\share_name So port 445 is sufficient if you can work with IP addresses only.