samba - Aug 2002 - Performance problems in XP

Hi,

I have been using SAMBA in a small office environment (15-20 clients) for 
several years.  Currently, most of my clients are using windows 2K and 
performance is very good for these clients.  However, I have an XP pro 
machine that is unbelievably slow.  Network file io that takes 30 seconds to 
a minute on the 2k machines takes 5 minutes plus on the XP machine.  I was 
using an older version of samba, but an upgrade to 2.5.5 did not help the 
situation.  I am wondering if mine is an isolated case (setup problem with 
the XP machine, slow NIC in the client, etc.) or if this is something that 
others have experienced.  File sizes on my network tend to be large, (autocad 
drawing files) that can be as big as 100 Mbytes+.  However this problem is 
more noticeable with small configuration files being accessed.  Any thoughts 
or ideas would be appreciated

Thanks.

I have experienced much the same issues. There were two causal factors
I have found so far.

The first was a misconfigured copy of MS Services for UNIX running on
the client. Removing it fixed the problem (since we didn't need the
services anyway. The second was a crappy onboard NIC. Adding a new NIC
fixed this.

I still have one machine in the office that just takes a super long
time using SAMBA. Regular domain machine access and authentication is
fine, as is normal TCP/IP traffic. I have not tried a clean install of
XP -- which I suspect may fix it.

Hope this helps.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin@lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Darrin Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 7:50 AM
> To: samba@lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Performance problems in XP
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been using SAMBA in a small office environment
> (15-20 clients) for
> several years.  Currently, most of my clients are using
> windows 2K and
> performance is very good for these clients.  However, I
> have an XP pro
> machine that is unbelievably slow.  Network file io that
> takes 30 seconds to
> a minute on the 2k machines takes 5 minutes plus on the XP
> machine.  I was
> using an older version of samba, but an upgrade to 2.5.5
> did not help the
> situation.  I am wondering if mine is an isolated case
> (setup problem with
> the XP machine, slow NIC in the client, etc.) or if this is
> something that
> others have experienced.  File sizes on my network tend to
> be large, (autocad
> drawing files) that can be as big as 100 Mbytes+.  However
> this problem is
> more noticeable with small configuration files being
> accessed.  Any thoughts
> or ideas would be appreciated
>
> Thanks.
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