I have seen a ton of messages on the list in the archives in reference to this but have not been able to find an answer to it. I will try to give as much info as possible so forgive me if this messages turns out to be long. Running FreeBSD 4.10 Samba 3.0.7 IBM e305 Server P4 2.0ghz 1gig of ECC Memory Boot Drive 40gig IDE Data Drive 250gig 8meg cache IDE 2 built in Gigabit Controllers Network/Home Office 6 XP Machines Cisco 2924 100mbit switch Hawkings 4 Port Gigabit switch Samba Server and Small Business Server plugged in to a hawkings gigabit switch which is crossed over to port 24 on the cisco switch. The Samba Server is just a member/file server in the domain. Problem When copying or moving files from the Samba shares to any machine on the network it is terribly slow, but copying files from the XP clients to the samba shares are blazing fast and the test has been run with no other network traffic going on. On the Cisco switch I see no errors on any of the ports and a netstat -I from the Samba/File server shows this below. netstat -i Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll bge0 1500 <Link#1> 00:02:55:b7:38:bb 556950 0 627924 0 0 bge0 1500 192.168.2 192.168.2.2 557672 - 629058 - - If I ftp to and from the samba server I get great results which are extrememly fast it is only the drag and drop from the samba share to XP machines which is being done via mapped drives on the XP machines. All the XP machines have a Intel Pro/1000 Desktop gigabit adapter in them. There is nothing showing up in any of the logs files log.smbd or log.nmbd or the winbindd log. I have not found anything in event Viewer on SBS2003 server either that would lead me to some sort of explanation. If I try to stream a dvd from the samba share it will not even play or plays 1 frame per second, put that same dvd on my SBS server and it plays fine. Here is my simple config I tried to keep it as simple as possible until I can nail down the slowness issue, any help would be greatly appreciated. # Global parameters [global] workgroup = DIGITALRAGE security = DOMAIN password server = 192.168.11.1 name resolve order = host wins bcast disable spoolss = Yes show add printer wizard = No wins server = 192.168.11.1 ldap ssl = no idmap uid = 15000-20000 idmap gid = 15000-20000 winbind separator = + winbind use default domain = Yes [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = No browseable = No [music] comment = My Home Music path = /music read only = No
On 19 Sep 2004, at 05:19, Elijah Savage wrote:> When copying or moving files from the Samba shares to any machine on > the > network it is terribly slow, but copying files from the XP clients to > the samba shares are blazing fast and the test has been run with no > other network traffic going on.We've had problems on our network involving 100Mbps cards and switches not using exactly the same timing for hardware features such as Ethernet flow control. I've also had problems (especially with HP switches talking to Intel chipsets) where the hardware does not correctly negotiate speed and duplex (eg: a 1G switch port and 1G ethernet chipset negotiate a connection at 10Mbps half duplex). We solved our problems by using a different switch - in our case, a little SOHO 10/100 switch with 8 ports. You might want to try a different brand of switch, or install a different brand of Ethernet card in your Samba server. HTH Alex "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them." --Isaac Asimov