[Samba] Sluggish Samba

[Bob McIlvaine]

Hi,

I took the plunge and installed the latest version of OpenBSD 
3.6 and SAMBA 3.0.11 (this because I found a patch for the 
OBSD ports tree).

So I now have all that up and running. Both my XP box  and 
my Audiotron can get to the SAMBA shares.

I did this upgrade because the problem I'm about to describe 
is exactly the same as before I upgraded from 3.4 OBSD, 2.x 
Samba. I know others are using the Auditron with Samba 
successfully...so it must be something I've got set wrong 
somewhere.

Next I put some wav files on the share. If I play one using 
Windows media player on the XP box all is good, no 
skipping, etc.

If I tell the Audiotron to play the file (media player is shut 
down on the xp box) it buffers forever and then plays the 
song a few bytes at a time.

If I use tcpdump to look at the traffic between the audiotron 
and the samba machine during the buffering the largest data 
packet that gets sent is 1400 bytes with the typical being 800 
or 600.

With xp/media player the data packets are large at first and 
then drop to smaller packets for the duration of the song.

Does anybody have any idea what's going on. Any help 
greatly appreciated!

Here is the smb.conf:

[global]
   workgroup = MACHOME
   server string = Parker103
   hosts allow = 192.168.53.10 192.168.53.20 192.168.53.30 
192.168.53.102 127.0.0.1
   load printers = yes
   log file = /var/log/smbd.%m
   log level = 1
   max log size = 50
   security = user
   socket options = TCP_NODELAY 
   dns proxy = no 
   encrypt passwords = yes
[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no
   writable = yes
   valid users = %S
[music]
    comment = Music storage
    path = /music
    read only = no
    browseable = yes
    public = yes
    guest ok = yes
    veto oplock files = /*.wav/