Samba Speed Issues and Information

[Jeremiah Gowdy]

>  My
> | company uses a DOS based Database program (custom), which simply uses
file
> | sharing.  Several things take quite a bit of time, like running reports,
> | posting, etc, even though (a) the processor load on the PII 350s isn't
> | anywhere near 20%, and (b) the network is 100BaseTx running on a very
nice
> | 3Com Switch.
>
> Classic "something else is slowing you down" symptoms.
> I've directed this to the samba at samba.org list, where
> more BSD folks live.
>
> There is a chaper on "ordinary" tuning at
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/appb_01.html
> but you probably have one overriding bottleneck that one
> of the other folks will know how to open.

Great, I'll check out that link, and thanks so much for forwarding my
message and taking the time to help me out.  :)