On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Matt Johnson wrote:
I setup a samba box this week. Works really well as a PDC but all clients pause when browsing the network neighbourhood - they seem to wait for something for about 20 seconds, then resume as normal. Log ons are fine, but log offs seem to pause for the same length (no, there's no sound file playing). Very odd. The network and hardware is all good, as we replaced SuSE 6.4 with Samba configured as PDC but with SHARE level security, with RedHat 7.2 with samba configured with USER level. Now, for some reason, a mysterious pause. Any ideas please?
20 quid says it's a name resolution problem. Check all your DNS settings on both clients and servers. Ensure that forward and reverse maps exist for all machines (either in DNS or in /etc/hosts). Michael