[Samba] Access to shares too slow

[Martin Mielke]

Charles Marcus wrote:
> Martin Mielke, on 12/28/2007 12:11 PM, said the following:
>> we recently moved our offices to a bigger place. Therefore all our 
>> servers and network electronic had to be turned off... :)
>>
>> Well, I know it sounds odd but after the move Samba is much slower 
>> serving the shares and users have to wait ages for the information to 
>> be copied or moved across the network. In some cases, Windows 
>> desktops seem to freeze until the data is retrieved from the Samba 
>> server where the shares are hosted...
>>
>> Nothing has been changed nor modified. System and network 
>> configurations remain the same, smb.conf is the same on the server, 
>> we use the same IP range, gateways, etc etc.
>>
>> Any clues? Maybe I'm overseeing something really obvious... :-/
>
> First, I'd be looking at any changes that were made since last reboot 
> - many times I've been bit by some change that doesn't get applied 
> until a reboot.
>
> Other possibilities are a bad port on a switch (the one the server is 
> on, since its affecting everyone) or a mismatched duplex mode on 
> either the switch or server side of the network connection.
>

Hmmm...

Both Samba server and switches are configured to use the same speed and 
duplex mode.

Samba server:
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# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 100Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 1
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Supports Wake-on: d
        Wake-on: d
        Link detected: yes

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The switch is set to 100-FDx (100baseT/Full Duplex), so everything 
matches...

Still confused...


Cheers,
Martin