Samba and file sharing by multiple clients

Hi,
I have an application on a Windows XP client opening about 50 files on an
samba share on Fedora 6.
The first client opening these files does that in about 2 seconds.
The second (and more) client needs for the same files (which are still open
by the first client) about 2 minutes!?!
I have no more idea what the problem is. I tried several options with
oplocks, kernel oplocks, fake oplocks etc. but nothing helped!
Please can you help me out there? Any idea?
Thnx.
Andy.

I have similar problems, but no solutions for you.
Win2k clients can search the mapped drive in 10 seconds or less. XP
clients take 30 minutes. There are 70gb of files to search, but I'm just
looking for a filename match, such as searching for *myfile*.txt

It just a simple workgroup. All clients can read / write, etc. Why are
the XP client PCs so much slower?

C'mon community, help me and Andreas!

Andreas Gessner wrote:
> Hi,
> I have an application on a Windows XP client opening about 50 files on an
> samba share on Fedora 6.
> The first client opening these files does that in about 2 seconds.
> The second (and more) client needs for the same files (which are still open
> by the first client) about 2 minutes!?!
> I have no more idea what the problem is. I tried several options with
> oplocks, kernel oplocks, fake oplocks etc. but nothing helped!
> Please can you help me out there? Any idea?
> Thnx.
> Andy.
>
>

Tim Gale wrote:
> I have similar problems, but no solutions for you.
> Win2k clients can search the mapped drive in 10 seconds or less. XP
> clients take 30 minutes. There are 70gb of files to search, but I'm just
> looking for a filename match, such as searching for *myfile*.txt
>
> It just a simple workgroup. All clients can read / write, etc. Why are
> the XP client PCs so much slower?
>
> C'mon community, help me and Andreas!
>
> Andreas Gessner wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have an application on a Windows XP client opening about 50 files on an
>> samba share on Fedora 6.
>> The first client opening these files does that in about 2 seconds.
>> The second (and more) client needs for the same files (which are still
>> open
>> by the first client) about 2 minutes!?!
>> I have no more idea what the problem is. I tried several options with
>> oplocks, kernel oplocks, fake oplocks etc. but nothing helped!
>> Please can you help me out there? Any idea?
>> Thnx.
>> Andy.
>>
have you enabled netbios over TCP/IP on the win2k/XP clients ?