[Samba] Performance Problem

[Gustavo Courault]

Ferdi:
I have the same problem. My solution was change the server NIC card. I put a 
3Com one and all works fine. I suggest you upgrade samba software too.

fzarnitz at gmx.net, ha escrito:
> Hello,
>
> I have a severe performance problem when connecting a M$-Client PC with a
> Bootdisk and TCP/IP-Stack to my Samba server.
> Both machines are linked via a 100Mbit crosslink connection.
> The server is running a SuSE Linux 7.2 with Kernel 2.4.19, the smb-fs and
> the NIC is compiled into the kernel.
> The Client uses a DOS 6.2 bootdisk with the M$ TCPIP-stack version 1.02.
> All M$ drivers load fine, the 'net use' command works too.
> Then I start Symantecs 'ghost' to create an image from the clients HD and
> put it to the used Samba share on the server.
> The Performance is poooor (<1Mbyte/min), tests with a W2K server on the
> same hardware showed better values (>200Mbyte/min)   :-(  .
> What can I do to improve this poor samba throughput???
>
> Regards
> Ferdi

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