[Samba] Slow transfers under W2K, OK under NT4

Bradley W. Langhorst brad at langhorst.com
Thu Jun 27 09:31:02 GMT 2002


what's in the logs?
what service pack are the 2k machines using?

brad
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 04:42, Tim Allen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Samba 2.2.5, Linux 2.4.9.
> 
> We're running a small network of half-a-dozen W2K and NT4 clients. We have
> an NT4 server and have just migrated all our file serving to our Samba
> server. It's immediately obvious that our W2K clients are now running much
> slower when accessing files on the Samba server. The NT4 machines are fine.
> On a W2K/NT4 dual-boot machine, W2K runs ten times slower - no long hangs -
> just much slower file transfer times.
> 
> I'm guessing this is a network parameter mismatch issue. Started with
> 
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> 
> in smb.conf. Commenting out this line has no effect. Any suggestions as to
> what to do next much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim Allen
> 
> 
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