[Samba] Slow transfer between Win2k and Samba

[David W. Chapman Jr.]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 05:26:10PM +0200, Jolke Perelaer wrote:
> Well as placed before, I have a problem with Win2k and Samba. Transferring files under Win2k on the client to the Samba Server is extremely slow. I have about  kb/s upload....
> After searching at the web, nothing could help me, so I tried this mailing list. Of course where would be the guys that know a lot of Samba ;-)
> 
> Secondly I thought maybe NTFS and Samba cannot communicate with each other. Because I have a Win98/win2k dual boot system, I tried the same under Win98. But (un)fortunately the results were good (500 kb/s). So it still could be a FAT/NTFS problem....
> I installed Win2k with a FAT32 filesystem... but that does not solve the problem either :-(
> 
> So, finally I have this problem: transferring files under a Win2k client from/to a Samba server runs _very_ slow (18 kb/s). What could be the problem? Or better what could be a solution?
> 
You could try turning oplocks off, and change settings with raw 
writes and raw reads.  Also see what you get with other protocols 
like FTP


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David W. Chapman Jr.
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