[Lias] win2k clients slow to login to RH samba pdc

[Andrew Smith]

Hi Nick,

Is there any chance your roaming profiles are full of Temporary Internet
Files?  Since IE cleverly* sized cache files by percentage of disk space,
it's become even more necessary to exclude this directory from the roaming
process.  I've seen profiles consume as much as 300-400MB in cache files,
being transferred every logon/off.

Andrew

*actually not very clever :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lias-admin at lists.linux.org.au
> [mailto:lias-admin at lists.linux.org.au]On Behalf Of Nick Oliver
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 September 2003 1:37 PM
> To: lias at lists.linux.org.au
> Subject: [Lias] win2k clients slow to login to RH samba pdc
>
>
> Hello samba gurus!
> We have a RH9.0 Samba PDC that authenticates 130 win2K (spII)
> workstations using LDAP and at the start of class the users experience
> 5-6 minute delays while they wait to login. The server is a Dell 2500
> with a single PIII 1gig cpu and 1.5gig RAM. Each user has a roaming
> profile (!!) and five shares to collect.
> We've tuned smb.conf to ensure that username level = 4
>      password level = 0
>
> We've tuned slapd.conf to ensure that cachesize = 100000 and
> dbcachesize = 1000000
>
> Question. What makes win2k logins so slow? What should we look at to
> increase the performance of the Samba PDC and LDAP for win2K logins?
>
> Nick Oliver
> Lyneham High School
> Canberra Australia
>
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