Louie Athanasiadis
2006-Jan-06 06:11 UTC
[Samba] Newer Versions Of Samba Has Problems With MS-DOS Clients Causing Slow Transfer Rates
Hello All I have been connecting MS-DOS clients to the SAMBA server that is running either KNOPPIX 4.0.2, CENTOS 4.2, FEDORA CORE 4 (ie latest versions of these OS's standard installs no tweaks to the smb.conf). The transfer rate to the server is about 300KB per sec (100 Mb Card at each end). When I connect with my WIN-XP machine the transfer rate is up to 5MB per second (on a 100 Mb card at each end). The ethtool command tells me that the network card is correctly configured on the server - ie 100Mb and full-duplex. On the same server hardware I ran above I used KNOPPIX 3.6, and FEDORA CORE 2 4 (standard installs no tweaks to the smb.conf).. The MS-DOS and WIN-XP connections both ran at about 5MB per second. My question is, is this it a Kernel Problem or a SAMBA problem that is causing the SLOW DOWN of MS-DOS clients on the NEWER Kernels / SAMBA versions. Does anyone know how to fix this or do I keep using old OS / Samba versions to keep my DOS clients happy. Thanks Regards Louie