Win9x speed and Samba.

[Stephen Waters]

would this patch also fix problems where windows says it couldn't find a
file or a share because of a slow connection?

thanks,
-s

Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> Reading the comp.protocols.smb newsgroup sometimes has
> its benefits :-).
> 
> Someone just posted there that they improved the speed
> of their Win9x systems by a factor of 15 against a Samba
> server by applying the patch to *all* versions of Win9x
> (*NOT* NT) described in Microsoft knowledgebase article :
> 
> Q236926
> 
> -found at :
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q236/9/26.asp?LNG=ENG&SA=ALLKB
> 
> Apparently Win9x (all versions) has a bug in the TCP
> RTT calculations that can cause premature retransmissions
> of packets. Now the article claims this is only on high
> delay networks (satellite links etc.) so your millage
> may vary.
> 
> There is also a patch for NT4 SP5 and below (the fix
> was rolled into NT4 SP6).
> 
> Articls - Q232512 refers to the NT fix (there is a link
> to this from the web page above).
> 
> If people on this list having performance problems could
> try this fix out and report back I'd really appreciate it.
> 
> If it turns out to be beneficial I'll add a link to the
> main Samba web page and add it to the Samba docs for the
> next release.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>         Jeremy Allison,
>         Samba Team.
> 
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