max xmit default to 0x4104 (16644). Why ...

Richard Sharpe rsharpe at richardsharpe.com
Mon Nov 3 18:51:17 GMT 2003


On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:43:34AM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > 
> > In addition, I have copied a 1.3GB file from Samba to Win2K using DOS (as 
> > I said above) with max xmit set to 65535 and 32768 and there appears no 
> > subjective difference in the time taken. I will now try it with the 
> > Explorer, which seems to be the issue as well.
> 
> That's because max xmit doesn't affect the SMBWriteX calls
> I don't think, or at least not the "large write" version.

However, it was using Read&X calls ... 

I think I have an example of the problem. I think the explorer has 
problems with a max xmit of 65535 when copying files from Samba to Win2K.

I will look at the trace.

Regards
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