[H-GEN] Samba browsing slow

[Mark Suter]

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Folks,

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.

I've spoken with David and we tried disabling the "WebClient"
service.  This *might* be the solution - we're still watching.

    http://www.theeldergeek.com/webclient.htm
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312181

For those with Windows, have a read of the following.  This is
akin to removing links from /etc/rc?.d/ with similar results.

    http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

Yours sincerely,

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