Mysterious delays between Windows XP and samba

From: Kamus of Kadizhar (yan_at_NsOeSiPnAeMr.com)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:02:23 -0500

I am stumped on this one. I have a client with an installation of 4
WinXP boxes, served by a brand new server with FC2 installed. Everything
works like a charm, except.....

The server provides file sharing services via Samba, DNS, and DHCP to the
workstations.

After about 30 minutes of inactivity, opening a file on the server takes
about 20 seconds. Once the file is opened, or if the user maintains
steady activity between the workstation and the server, there is no delay.

Web access is not affected.

I am guessing that this is some sort of cache expiration issue - either a
password expires, or a DNS cache, or something like that. I've been all
through the log files, rooted around everything I can think of, and there
are no messages anywhere that would indicate any sort of problem.

The samba mailing list occasionally mentions this, but I have not found
any solution on the list or googling the web.

Any ideas anyone? Where to begin looking?

The server is way overkill for 4 workstations; it's a dual Intel
Pentium 4 CPU 2.80GHz with 1 GB of memory and software RAID-0 SATA drives;
I know it's not a performance bottleneck. It's some kind of timeout issue....

--Kamus

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