[H-GEN] Samba browsing slow

[David Duffy]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 22:33, David Duffy wrote:

>>I have a Debian machine that I use at home with a network of
>>Windows XP clients. Browsing the shares used to be nice and
>>fast with the old Red Hat box but is intermittently very slow with
>>the new Debian box. The same setup at work perform just fine.
>>    
>>

> Josh Marshall wrote:
>
>I've seen that in the past, and have found that it tends to be the client 
>rather than the server - ie some clients had the fault and others not.
>
>I just did a quick google (I never actually found the problem) and found this 
>little gem which you could try:
>
>http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-February/060991.html
>  
>

The weird thing is the only machine that's different on this network
now is the Linux box! (was RH7.x now Debian and a faster box)
I'll check out the key mentioned in that article though. Once I've
drilled down to a particular directory it seems faster for a while &
then gets slow again, as if it's a cache problem of some sort?
David...