Dear All,
Sorry to repeat a question I've seen mentioned before, but have not been
able to find a solution to my specific instance.
I have an XP SP2 box (and one with no SP), and some Win2K boxes, and a Samba
server (3.0.9-2). The Win2K boxes can all copy files to the server at a
reasonable speed, but the XP boxes are all dreadfully slow. FTP from the XP
boxes is fine. The XP boxes can also copy to the Win2k boxes at a reasonable
speed.
I have tried:
- attaching the XP boxes to the network cables of the desktops &
vice-verca.
This results in unchanged behaviour (XP slow, 2K fast)
- FTP from the XP machines (runs fast)
- rebooting XP
- rebooting server
- directly connecting XP machine to server
- XP copy to Win2k (fast)
But with no luck. The time (estimated) to copy a 2 GB file is > 200 minutes.
Microsoft KB articles talk about changing TcpAckFrequency Values on the server,
for slow comms from XP to a Win2K PDC
(support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321169)
but this is on the server, and the same article talks about changing
RequireSecuritySignature & EnableSecuritySignature (on the client, I think),
but these are already set to 0.
The most odd thing about this is that the poor performance started happening
during a copy operation: 10GB were copied in a few minutes, then the connection
ran slow and has run slow ever since.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Relevant smb.conf sections below:
[global]
workgroup = ALBATROSS
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
printcap cache time = 750
cups options = raw
printer admin = @ntadmin, root, administrator
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
map to guest = Bad User
include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile
logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile
logon drive = L:
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s
/bin/false %m$
domain logons = yes
domain master = yes
ldap idmap suffix = ou=Idmap
ldap machine suffix = ou=Computers
local master = yes
os level = 65
preferred master = yes
ldap suffix = dc=example,dc=com
netbios name = Alexandria
unix charset = ISO8859-1
display charset = ISO8859-1
[nobackup]
comment = Un-backed-up Files
path = /nobackup/netfiles/%u
read only = no
directory mask = 0700
hide dot files = no
create mask = 0700
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