[Samba] Slow network to samba machine

[Noel Kelly]

Danny,

The nmbd error is because you have Samba enabled as a Wins server so two
nmbd processes are started and  your script is having trouble finding the
second one to kill.  If you execute the shutdown command again you will see
the second process killed.

Your network problems sound like line errors.  Try doing an 'ifconfig' and
see if you are getting any errors on that network card.

HTH
Noel

-----Original Message-----
From: Danny Regan [mailto:dregan at midfield.com.au]
Sent: 12 November 2002 20:58
To: samba at samba.org
Subject: [Samba] Slow network to samba machine


Sirs,

Thank you for any time that you take to read about my problem.

I have a Linux (redhat) 8.0 mail server set up with;
    qmail
    dhcp / dns
    transparent proxy to internet - adsl
    HTML & our web pages (nothing special)
    SAMBA
This problem has been with me since RedHat 7.3 and thir packaged samba.

If I transfer a file from the mail (linux box) box to a win98se box it takes
a minimum amount of time.
If I transfer a file to the mail box from a win98se box it takes enormous
amounts of time
for example a file of 100k from mail to win98 - 10 secs
                   a file 0f 100k from win98 to mail - 10 mins
                    (if it makes it and the process doesn't fail.)
error messages usually like : "The device does not exist on the network...."
Smaller files of say 1-3k transfer without problems in reasonable amounts of
time.

The same problems occur when I map a drive from win98 to mail - except that
I can transfer slightly larger files (up to 75k) without the error/failure
messages.  It still takes about 5mins to transfer the file.

Same goes when I use /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\win98name\c password - although
I can 'get' a file up to about 140k without any error messages.

I have tried the smb.conf with SO_RCVBUF to 32768, security user and share -
There have been no problems establishing network connections.  Everything
appears to work just fine.

When I perform a /etc/rd.c/init.d/smb restart I do get a message for NBM
that is a little disturbing;
Shutting down SMB services [ OK ]
Shutting down NMB services /etc/rd.c/init.d/smb line 201:kill: (11313) - no
such process
Starting is all OK & OK

/etc/services (as advised in the Unofficial Samba HOTTO) has
netbios-ns        137/tcp
netbios-ns        137/udp
netbios-dgm     137/tcp
netbios-dgm     137/udp
netbios-ssn       137/tcp
netbios-ssn       137/udp
microsoft-ds      445/tcp
microsoft-ds      445/udp

As a matter of interest - qmail has the same problem.

This may not be a samba problem - but any suggestions that you may be able
to offer will be very well received (even rude ones)

Thank you again for reading through my dilemma

Danny Regan

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