copying files samba - win95: drops dead in the middle

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"Marc Remijn" <marrem at IAEhv.nl> write
> When copying files from the Samba server to a Windows95 client or vv,
> the speed varies dramatically. When I try to copy the same (20MB) file
10
> times
> some times it copies in less than 10 seconds. The next time it takes
allmost
> a
> minute. And most worrying of all quite often the copying just stops
halfway
> in
> the middle. The progress bar in Windows just stops. The traffic on the
NIC
> also
> stops (the traffic led stops flashing).



I have a similar problem: only with Win98. Sometimes the speed of
retrieving files from the SMB server is just unbelievably high. Seconds
later a client can hang for up to 15 minutes. Additionally files are
being corrupted, W98 reports out of disk space on SMB volume, etc.

I am running Samba 2.0.2 on 2 CPU Linux box :kernel 2.2.3; two network
segments: 100BASE-TX and 10BASE-T; HP J3272A 100Base-T Hub;
all network cards are 10/100 Intel EE; 17 Win98 workstations; OpenBSD
firewall box; NT4 Server (soon to go, especially if I solve the problem
with the Samba performance).

I would appreciate any ideas, suggestions, help.

Regards,
Gantcho I. Mantchorov