read/write multiplexed support

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Windows servers only support the readMPX/writeMPX SMB calls over
connectionless transport (direct IPX transport--which is not NWLINK).  The
whole purpose these commands was to make optimal use of multiple transport
level connections that were bound together.  Typically this would be
multiple modem links between a remote client and a server.  MPX commands
would have no real benefit over a single-path connection oriented transport.

Chris -)-----

Marcel Müller wrote:
> I just discovered that samba 3.2.x does no longer support the TRANS2
> commands readBmpx and writeBmpx. This causes OS/2 (and eConStation)
> clients to have extremely poor performance when connecting to a samba
> server. I am talking about 2.5MB/s over switched 100baseT in read and
> write direction. Reading from Samba 3.0.24 is about 8MB/s with the same
> setup.
> 
> It would be nice to get the support for these transfer modes back.
> Otherwise OS/2 clients are in fact restricted to samba 3.0.2x.
> 
> 
> Marcel

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