Hi, I have posted this issue once but have not yet had a reply to it. Not sure maybe no one has an answer but I will try again. I have a linux box running SuSE 8.2 with samba 2.2.7-a58. Everything works well except when clients workstations copy files to their workstations, in particular my client running Mac OS X. Mac OS X supports the SMB protocol. I had a look at the logs but could not see anything that looks out of the ordinary, not that I know what everything means, but nothing from a glance that would point to a reason for my problem. I even rebooted the server but still no luck. Copying to the server seems fine. In fact copying a few Gig of data takes less time than retreiveing 40 MB from the server. I also had a look at the network card settings. It's set to full duplex 100MB and only 0 errors, collisions are plenty but this is a "flat" network so it's to be expected. Is there anyone that could possibly assist. Kind Regards, Eugene
| I have a linux box running SuSE 8.2 with samba | 2.2.7-a58. Everything works well except when clients | workstations copy files to their workstations, in | particular my client running Mac OS X. Mac OS X | supports the SMB protocol. I had a look at the logs | but could not see anything that looks out of the | ordinary, not that I know what everything means, but | nothing from a glance that would point to a reason | for my problem. I even rebooted the server but still | no luck. Copying to the server seems fine. In fact | copying a few Gig of data takes less time than | retreiveing 40 MB from the server. | | I also had a look at the network card settings. It's | set to full duplex 100MB and only 0 errors, | collisions are plenty but this is a "flat" network | so it's to be expected. Hold on. Collisions are not to be expected if your NIC is 100/FD. It implies that there is a switch, not a hub, between your Mac and Samba. You should set your NIC to Auto-Detect speed or to 100/HD if you are connected via a hub. And even if it is a switch, your setting must match the port setting, so check it out. ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005
||| I have a linux box running SuSE 8.2 with samba ||| 2.2.7-a58. Everything works well except when ||| clients workstations copy files to their ||| workstations, in particular my client running ||| Mac OS X. Mac OS X supports the SMB protocol. I ||| had a look at the logs but could not see ||| anything that looks out of the ordinary, not ||| that I know what everything means, but nothing ||| from a glance that would point to a reason for ||| my problem. I even rebooted the server but still ||| no luck. Copying to the server seems fine. In ||| fact copying a few Gig of data takes less time ||| than retreiveing 40 MB from the server. ||| ||| I also had a look at the network card settings. ||| It's set to full duplex 100MB and only 0 errors, ||| collisions are plenty but this is a "flat" ||| network so it's to be expected. || Hold on. Collisions are not to be expected if your || NIC is 100/FD. It implies that there is a switch, || not a hub, between your Mac and Samba. You should || set your NIC to Auto-Detect speed or to 100/HD if || you are connected via a hub. And even if it is a || switch, your setting must match the port setting, || so check it out. | Thanks for the tip. I don't know how to change the | card under linux. Is there a way? man mii-tool will tell you how you can do it, unless your NIC doesn't comply. But I thought your problem was on the Mac side. ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005
||||| I also had a look at the network card settings. ||||| It's set to full duplex 100MB and only 0 errors, ||||| collisions are plenty but this is a "flat" ||||| network so it's to be expected. |||| Hold on. Collisions are not to be expected if |||| your NIC is 100/FD. It implies that there is a |||| switch, not a hub, between your Mac and Samba. |||| You should set your NIC to Auto-Detect speed or |||| to 100/HD if you are connected via a hub. And |||| even if it is a switch, your setting must match |||| the port setting, so check it out. ||| Thanks for the tip. I don't know how to change the ||| card under linux. Is there a way? || man mii-tool will tell you how you can do it, || unless your NIC doesn't comply. But I thought your || problem was on the Mac side. | Not sure where the problem lies. It might in fact be | on the mac side, the problem however is that I am no | fundi when it comes to mac. Will have to check out | the mac for some sort of config that I could change. I never laid my hand on a Mac before but I assisted a friend via phone when he wanted to share his DSL with the rest of the family. I believe there is an icon on the desktop for network-related tasks, perhaps within a more general toolbox. Though we only set the IP addresses and masks for the host, gateway and DNS server, there must also be a tab for physical settings of the NIC. If it's not there, then it's probably plug-n-play, which means Auto-Detect. Now, if your hub or switch cannot auto-detect, you may have a problem. Some cheap hubs/switches have one or more dip-switches to set 10/100 or FD/HD. If Mac can't be forced to any specific speed/duplicity mode, you'll have to experiment, until you get satisfactory results. This is only to eliminate the collisions. It mustn't necessarily correct your main problem, which may be somewhere else. However, collisions shouldn't be taken for granted. Good luck. ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005