Long delay for authentication dialog 10.6.x to Windows 2008 SBS

Question

I am encountering a very long delay (30-45 seconds) for the authentication dialog when connecting from Mac OS X 10.6.2 clients to a Windows 2008 Small Business Server.
We are connecting using the "Connect to Server" dialog, using smb://<server host name> and smb://<server IP address> as the URIs. Once the authentication dialog eventually comes up the users can log in successfully and access the shares on the server normally and at normal speed.
I see this entry show up in the system.log when a smb connection is started:
/System/Library/CoreServices/NetAuthAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/NetAuthAgent ### * process ### exceeded 500 log message per second limit - remaining messages this second discarded *
I would like to see the NetAuthAgent log that is referred to in the error but I haven't been able to determine where this log resides or it I need to set NetAuthAgent or the smb client into a debug mode to capture logging.
I have tried many of the usual fixes on the server side when it comes to Mac compatibility including:
•Disabled SMB signing
•Setting these registry values to 0:
HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\Parameters\Enablesecurity signature
HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\Parameters\Requiresecurit ysignature
This was asked last October with no resolution:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9804807
If anyone has encountered this issue and discovered a solution please help. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I'm having an issue with 10.6.x lately and Windows 2003.
Random disconnects and the same log errors about the message limit.
Feb 24 11:20:02 macpro-phil KernelEventAgent[73]: tid 00000000 received event(s) VQ_DEAD (32)
Feb 24 11:20:02 macpro-phil KernelEventAgent[73]: tid 00000000 type 'smbfs', mounted on '/Volumes/VideoSAN', from '//ACC;Phillip.Roncoroni@acc-office/VideoSAN', dead
Feb 24 11:20:02 macpro-phil KernelEventAgent[73]: tid 00000000 type 'smbfs', mounted on '/Volumes/ACC_docs', from '//ACC;Phillip.Roncoroni@acc-office/ACC_docs', dead
Feb 24 11:20:02 macpro-phil KernelEventAgent[73]: tid 00000000 type 'smbfs', mounted on '/Volumes/Drop Box', from '//ACC;Phillip.Roncoroni@acc-office/Drop%20Box', dead
Feb 24 11:20:02 macpro-phil KernelEventAgent[73]: tid 00000000 found 3 filesystem(s) with problem(s)
Feb 24 11:20:02 macpro-phil KernelEventAgent[73]: tid 00000000 received event(s) VQ_DEAD (32)
Feb 24 11:20:02 macpro-phil KernelEventAgent[73]: tid 00000000 type 'smbfs', mounted on '/Volumes/Photos', from '//ACC;Phillip.Roncoroni@acc-office/Photos', dead
Feb 24 11:20:02 macpro-phil KernelEventAgent[73]: tid 00000000 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s)
Also looking for a resolution.