[Samba] Windows XP slow trainsfers

[Kelly Shutt]

So what is the status of the issues with Win2K/XP?  I've had ongoing 
problems with my samba transfers for 3 years now, and still get 
weirdness.  I've done days and days of troubleshoot at a time and can't 
find the issue.  I'm pretty sure it's something with the way windows 
schedules packets just being a pain.  One would think that you guys have 
heard enough about this to try and figure it out.  Do you have any 
suggestions?  I'm not expert, but I've been dealing with linux for 
almost 6 years now so I'm not a newb either.  I have tried everything I 
could find.... upgrading/downgrading everything, disabling various 
services, different wins/dns configs, different network buffers, etc.  
Results varied depending on what I was tweaking, but in my case the end 
result is that I can get my download to windows to max out at about 
800kbit and the upload at about 200kbit.  I realise that these aren't 
horrible speeds, but they're still pretty lame considering that both 
NICs are running at 100Mbit and I can FTP transfer at about 8Mbit on 
average.

Please let me know what's up with this issue.  I am very happy with 
samba and consider it one of the best services I've used, aside from 
some difficulties which should be minor.  Any advise you could give me 
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Kelly Shutt