NigelKersten posted a great afp tuning tips article which solved many of my afp performance woes. Can anyone point me to a similar tuning tips resource for smb services on 10.4.9 server, Intel Xserves.
Background is that an entire lab of iMacs can log into a server (hosted homedirs) with little delay and barely a bump on the quad cores. Reboot the same lab into XP (dual-booters), and 25 concurrent logins can be extremely slow, several minutes as opposed to 5-7 seconds on the Mac side. Authentication is occurring on a separate OD master, not the file server, both of which spike only when numerous XP clients login. All Windows profiles/caches are redirected to local clients (via registry hacks), nothing on the file server. They simply map two drives, one to their Homedir and one to a Groups volume. The load on the server should be extremely low. Performace once logged in is snappy, why the long authentication/login/drive mapping process?
Many thanks for any advice or guidance.
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