[SLUG] Samba Headaches

[Rob Hall]

Hi folks,

My first posting to this group so a small intro probably in order. My name is 
Rob and I'm a technician at a college here in N. Yorks. We are running a 
stunning total of 0 Linux boxes (at the moment!) but I have been using Linux 
as a desktop user for a number of years. Lovely OS! 

I was asked recently to help set up a really simple file server using Redhat 
FC2 on a Dell Poweredge which went pretty smoothly. We had some problems 
though getting the XP and 98 clients to remember the mapped drives we had set 
up on them. After a lot of headscratching and umming I realised that the 
workgroup name had a space in it and was causing all sorts of hassle (not my 
choice of name I hasten to add) I changed it to an 8 letter name and all 
seems to be well for the XP clients. However, the 98 clients take forever to 
see the mapped drives. They eventually get there after a couple of minutes 
but this is causing real bother.

Any ideas why 98 clients could be doing this?

TIA

Rob