Samba response slow - related to invalid guest access error?

The Samba setup is working just fine. Users can authenticate, mount
SMB shares, create files and directories etc.

Only problem is that there is a delay of one second or so between when
the action initiated on the Windows client and the response from the
server. In other words: Samba is slow! But why? The only interesting
thing I found is the following entry in
/var/log/samba/<client_name>.log:

[2004/05/19 05:18:56, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(1082)
Username guest is invalid on this system

Thanks,
--Ulf

arabub wrote:
> The Samba setup is working just fine. Users can authenticate, mount
> SMB shares, create files and directories etc.
>
> Only problem is that there is a delay of one second or so between when
> the action initiated on the Windows client and the response from the
> server. In other words: Samba is slow! But why? The only interesting
> thing I found is the following entry in
> /var/log/samba/<client_name>.log:
>
> [2004/05/19 05:18:56, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(1082)
> Username guest is invalid on this system
>
> Thanks,
> --Ulf

Do you have a valid linux account specified as the guest account via the
"guest account =" keyword in smb.conf ? Something like :
guest account = ftp
That usually works. Not sure why it would be trying to authenticate as
guest, but maybe try looking though
http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html

Specifically the section on "Note about Username/password Validation"...


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- Matt -