Hello, Can you help with a small Samba problem. I have a Linux box connected to a Win98 machine both machines are fitted with 10/100bps network cards, and connected using a twisted cat5 cable direct. If I send a 13meg file to the Linux sever from the Win98 machine transfer takes about 4 min, if I get the same file from the Win98 machine transfer takes about 6 seconds. It is clear from this that the transfer speed is not 100bps. Thank you Clive Prescott sales@p-c-services.co.uk
>If I send a 13meg file to the Linux sever from the Win98 machine transfer >takes about 4 min, if I get the same file from the Win98 machine transfer >takes about 6 seconds.I just copied a 16MB file (kernel source tarball) from a Win95 client to my Samba server in about 10 seconds (100BTX network). No problem here. I have experienced slowdown problems in repeated opening and closing of files that is incessantly done by programs such as Quickbooks. I don't know what the issue is there, but I don't use Samba to host Quickbooks files. Lee Howard.
Clive, On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:46:57 +0100, Prescott Computing Services wrote:>I have a Linux box connected to a Win98 machine both machines are >fitted with 10/100bps network cards, and connected using a twisted >cat5 cable direct.>If I send a 13meg file to the Linux sever from the Win98 machine >transfer takes about 4 min, if I get the same file from the Win98 >machine transfer takes about 6 seconds. > >It is clear from this that the transfer speed is not 100bps.One of your NICs thinks it does not run full duplex (probably both set to autonegotiation). Force both to full duplex. Regards, Robert -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Robert.Dahlem@gmx.net Fax +49-69-432647 --------------------------------------------------------------- Sent using PMMail (http://www.pmmail2000.com) - fast, decent, email software; far better than Outlook. Try it sometime.