[Samba] Re: samba Digest, Vol 7, Issue 34

[Scott Moorhouse]

Make sure the XP box's firewall is disabled for the network connection
you're using to connect to the samba server (advanced properties of the
network connection).
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> From: Francesc Guasch <frankie at etsetb.upc.es>
> To: Gémes Géza <geza at kzsdabas.sulinet.hu>
> Cc: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Windows XP slow with samba-2.2.7 from RH7.3
> Date: 24 Jul 2003 11:08:34 +0200
> 
> Gémes Géza wrote:
> > Francesc Guasch írta:
> > 
> >> I posted last week a question about a network with some XP PCs.
> >> One PC connects fine to the samba server, but the other one
> >> is quite slow, almost unusable. There are also Win98 hosts
> >> running fine.
> 
> > Hasn't accidentaly the slow XP machine got multiple network interfaces?, 
> 
> Nice try Gémes.
> 
> > check with ipconfig /all in a command prompt, I've had that problem with 
> 
> I'm afraid it's not the case. It only has one network
> interface. Today we made a test. A 100MB file was copied
> from the samba server to the PC: more than 10 minutes.
> The same file was copied to another PC: 15 seconds.
> 
> Anyone else has any idea ?
> 

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