Very Slow Transfers from Win2K to Linux over Samba

[Steve Lee]

I just had this problem.  The way i troubled shooted my problem
was to use my windows machine to ftp into the samba server
and see the raw transfer rate.  I only got a 60k/s.  Then 
i rebooted into Linux ( dual boot ) and got 3 MB/s.  I then realized
that the drivers for Windows 2000 for my nic sucked or the nic it self
(SMC).  Luckily i had an Intel Pro 10/100 and put that in.  My goodness.
i ftp from my windows 2000 server to Samba ( 1200Kb/s ).  Whooo Hooaa.
Before that i also did some more measurements from my other machines
at home, and did all the recommended tuning, nothing worked  until
i changed out the nic.





On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 plasmatic at softhome.net wrote:

> 
> I'm having a slight problem with Samba.  For a few months now I've used
> Samba on my Linux box to access my songs on my Win98 machine over a 10MBit
> Ethernet without any problems.  Now that I've upgraded to Win2K, my uploads
> are down to about 30k/s and my downloads to about 1k/s.  Changing SO_SNDBUF
> to 1200 made the uploads quite a bit better, jolting back and forth but
> averaging about 200k/s, but changing SO_RCVBUF, max xmit, raw read/write,
> and large readwrite seemed to have no effect.  The only thing that works is
> using smbclient and specifying -b 1200, which gives me my usual 500-600kb/s
> downloads.  However, this doesn't help with smbmount.  Of anyone I'm sure
> you guys would know best as to where I can make this setting permanent
> (even if I have to edit the source).  I'd just go back to Win98 (infact,
> I've got half a mind) but 2000 has been relatively crash-free compared to
> '98, and it would mean redoing EVERYTHING.  Any help you could give would
> be appreciated.  Thanks!
> 
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