samba - Nov 2001 - Performance problem with combination Samba / Windows 98 Explorer

Dear reader,

A few days ago I have installed Suse Linux 7.1 with Samba. Soon I was able 
to connect from a windows 98 workstation to the linux machine using samba. 
After testing I found that the server was functioning great, however when I 
copy files to the samba share using the windows explorer the performance is 
about 25% of the performance I get when I copy the same files to the same 
share on the same machine using a command-line instruction.
I've searched the internet trying to find out if this is a known problem. I 
found that the problem is being discussed on a few sites, however nobody 
seems to be able to give a reason or a solution for this problem.

Can you give me a hand ?

Thank you in advance.

Arno de Greef

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Arno de Greef wrote:
> Dear reader,
>
> A few days ago I have installed Suse Linux 7.1 with Samba. Soon I was able
> to connect from a windows 98 workstation to the linux machine using samba.
> After testing I found that the server was functioning great, however when I
> copy files to the samba share using the windows explorer the performance is
> about 25% of the performance I get when I copy the same files to the same
> share on the same machine using a command-line instruction.
> I've searched the internet trying to find out if this is a known
problem. I
> found that the problem is being discussed on a few sites, however nobody
> seems to be able to give a reason or a solution for this problem.
Sounds like a known bug.  Upgrade to 2.2.2.





cheers, jerry
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Jerry,

I've tried installing version 2.2.2 but the problem remains.

The discussion I mentioned in my last message was on the following URL :
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-technical/2001-June/029966.html.
Maybe you'll find some more details there.

Cheers, Arno


At 09:26 22-11-2001 -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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