[Samba] Access to shares too slow

[Martin Mielke]

Charles Marcus wrote:
> Just curious...
>
>> The switch is set to 100-FDx (100baseT/Full Duplex), so everything 
>> matches... 
>
> You don't have this (a SERVER) plugged into a Gb switch? If not, why? 
> You will get a huge performance boost...
>
> Also, you have auto-neg enabled on the server - this can cause 
> problems, it is better to manually set it to the desired link speed/mode.
>

the switches can handle 1000BaseT flawlessly but for some reason I still 
don't know I cannot change the link speed on the server...

It won't work from the command line:

# ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off
Cannot set new settings: Invalid argument
  not setting speed
  not setting duplex
  not setting autoneg

nor from the configuration files for eth0 under 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (in that case, I'd need to add
ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off" in there)

therefore the switch negotiates 100BaseT...which could be the reason 
for my problems... :-/


Cheers,
Martin