Recently setup Samba on a RH Linux 6.1 box at home - network is 100bT - and printing /browsing works great. However reading or writing files of any size to the share seems overly slow. For instance a simple 1MB PNG file takes 20-30 seconds to load up. Of my local HD it's instant. Any ideas what could be causing this? I read through quite a few docs to get this working to begin with :) and didn't see a lot in regards to performance tuning... thanks much! jim here is my smb.conf [global] workgroup = HOME server string = Home file server hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127. guest account = pcguest null passwords = yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 log level = 0 getwd cache = yes lock directory = /var/lock/samba/locks locking = yes map hidden = yes map archive = yes map system = yes printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes security = user encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 # Case Preservation can be handy - system default is _no_ # NOTE: These can be set on a per share basis ; preserve case = no ; short preserve case = no # Default case is normally upper case for all DOS files ; default case = lower # Be very careful with case sensitivity - it can break things! ; case sensitive = no #============================ Share Definitions =============================[homes] comment = Personal Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes guest ok = yes [fileshare] comment = Shared file storage path = /share browseable = yes guest ok = yes writable = yes #=========================== Printer =================================== [DeskJet] comment = HP Desk Jet 540 printable = yes print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r %s path = /var/spool/samba printer = lp printing = BSD read only = yes guest ok = yes