Hello , I know its very tedious solving problems MS has on a Linux based Software A Windows XP machine without SP1 , Worked Fine until one day , everything is so SLOW , every mouse click reponds after 3-4 minutes , this account logs to a samba PDC , If its a PDC or samba problem then why is it so slow on stuff done locally on the computer , i scanned the PC with an Updated norton , and defragged it , checked HDD for errors , the thing is there is another XP starting to behave the same , How can i be sure its not a Samba problem . has any one had something lile this before ? [root@apogee root]# rpm -qa | grep samba samba-2.2.7a-8.9.0 samba-common-2.2.7a-8.9.0 samba-client-2.2.7a-8.9.0 [root@apogee root]# which samba Log shall i paste to ya guys to help .
Dear list, I currently have a small intranet. A 100bt hub, a Mandrake 9.1 box with an out of the box smb.conf file. I have 2 XP workstations and a ME workstation. Nothing fancy. The problem is that file tranfers from an XP workstation to a samba share is extremely slow. About .2 mb a second. If I transfer files from my linux box to the XP workstation, the transfer jumps to around 4-5mb a second. A HUGE difference and while on the mandrake list it is apparent I'm not the only one. I've done as much digging as I can. I have done packet traces and would be happy to send those to anyone clever enough to figure it out if they would care to. Initially the slow transfer had about 25% more frames for the same file. I found window size set too small. I bumped that up and now the frame count is the same, but it is still slow. Nothing is jumping out at me. Other than some minor attempts to find file structure that doesn't exist. Any ideas? I'd sure love to hear if anyone has a clue. I've looked at tweaking XP and smb.conf to no avail. Lorne