[Samba] Windows XP - samba 1.1.9 slow file transfer problem

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 07:50:27PM -0700, Greg Adams wrote:
> I'm experiencing a problem with slow file transfer from a Solaris 2.6
> Samba 1.1.9 server to Windows XP clients. This problem does not occur
> for Windows 2000 clients. In attempting to troubleshoot the problem,
> I've run Ethereal on both clients and noticed a marked difference in
> the logs of a transfer of the same file from the server.

Samba 1.1.x is *very* old. Please upgrade if just for securitys
sake.

> Any suggestions? Would upgrading to Samba 3.x resolve this issue?

Samba 3.0.x has been tuned to provide the same defaults to the
client as Windows 2000 - so hopefully you shouldn't get this
problem.

Jeremy.