On Monday 01 September 2003 03:48 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > >On Monday 01 September 2003 03:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > >>I was the one who asked the question about slow transfers using Samba. > >>I asked on this list and on the newbie list. Still have not received > >>any answers resolving the issue. > >> > >>When a transfer to or from a Samba box is initiated from a Win2000 box > >>it flies. When the same transfer is initiated from a Samba box to > >>either another Samba box, or to a Win2000 box, it crawls at around 1/3 > >>the speed of the Win2000 initiated transfer. Is this expected behavior? > > > >I think the op of this thread had the slowness going the other way. Samba > > to XP is fast, while XP to samba is fast. In any case, it always seems > > to be a problem with the configuration of the windows machines, not the > > samba machines. > > Windows to Samba was only half of my comment. An incorrect Windows > configuration doesn't explain a slow Samba to Samba transfer.
I would agree from smb to smb, but I really don't believe this is an "incorrect windows configuration" issue. There is a fundamental issue that I believe Microsoft has done to deliberately break or slow samba. I may be wrong, but I've not seen a solution yet. I did read somewhere that you now no longer need netbios resolution for XP to work, but I don't think this is the problem. If anything that would help without a wins server. ??
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