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  From: James Leone <Jleone@pacbell.net>
  To  : <dmdeflui@subcorp.com.au>
        <"> "LinuxSA (E-mail)" >
  Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 12:33:09 -0700

Re: [OT] SAMBA 2.2.1a => W2KSP2 + WNT4SP6a+ Redhat 6.2 + Tru64Uni x4.0D

I have been thinking about this for a while and I also wanted to point 
out that disabling DFS at every Windows 2000 machine may solve the 
problem in your case. Just be sure that you don't need DFS before you 
disable it.

DFS was a major cause of our slowdown here.

Here is some basic information about it.

> http://www.bigbutton.com.au/~gossner/curriculum/docs/easysamba/easysambaweb/x419.html


The script will help you remap, but disabling DFS will stop your machine 
from doing the following by default as quoted from M$:

"The Microsoft® Distributed File System (Dfs) is a network server 
component that makes it easier for you to find and manage data on your 
network. Dfs is a means for uniting files on different computers into a 
single name space...Microsoft Distributed File System does for servers 
and shares what file systems do for hard disks. File systems provide 
uniform named access to collections of sectors on disks; Dfs provides a 
uniform naming convention and mapping for collections of servers, 
shares, and files...In short, Dfs can be thought of as a share of other 
shares."

Their tech white paper:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/howitworks/fileandprint/dfsnew.asp

Anyway, I thought this would be important for you, maybe even more 
effective than the script.


James Leone






dmdeflui@subcorp.com.au wrote:

> [Standard Disclaimer - Sorry about the HTML embedding - please 
> shootmanagement policy - we are going to upgrade Outlook soon]
>
> James,
>
> Thank you for your script.  I will look into implementing this on our 
> servers and see how I go.
>
> Regards,
> Desiree M. de Fluiter
>


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