Brian wrote: > Remember though, this particular network is on a HUB, i.e. half-duplex. > If there is any other sort of traffic what-so-ever it's going to be > noticeably slower (DNS lookups, Net-BT broadcasts, etc). >
Brings up a good point. Specifically, how many hubs are we talking about? Are there more than 2 hubs between the mdk and XP box? If it's a 1 hub small network, DNS and NETBIOS braodcasts shouldn't be that much of an issue. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- ----- Original Message ----- From: "chort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP` > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 10:44, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > lorne wrote: > > > > >On Monday 01 September 2003 08:10 pm, Michael Viron wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Seems like this is related to the stuff discussed in > > >>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321169 and possibly > > >>in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321098 . > > >> > > >>You may also want to try running regedit to do the following: > > >> > > >>go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current > > >>Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace" in the registry > > >> > > >>remove {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} . > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >First I apologize for not reporting what I found yesterday. I had already > > >tried the top two things to no avail yesterday. I tried removing the above > > >key and it made no difference at all. As we speak I'm transferring 285MB of > > >data from the Linux box to the XP box and it has been 8 minutes so far and my > > >guess is that it will take another 9 - 10 minutes. If I do it from my linux > > >server and copy it to the xp box, it will blast over in about 2 minutes or > > >less!! > > > > > > > This illustrates my point perfectly. When you initiated the transfer on > > the Linux box it took around two minutes to do the transfer, and you > > called it fast (blast). I repeated that behavior in my own setup. I > > got the same results when initiating the transfer on my Mandrake box > > using Konqueror and command line (cp). I call it slow because when I > > initiate the transfer on the Win2000 box, using Windows Explorer, I get > > the same transfer done in under a minute. Why the huge difference in speed? > > > > A two minute transfer for a file that size may be fast compared to a > > totally broken setup, but it is still half as fast as it should be. The > > question is: what needs to be done to have file transfers initiated in > > Linux get the same transfer speed experienced when they are initiated by > > Windows? > > > > The same thing can be said for transfers between Linux and Linux. It > > experiences the same crippled transfer speed. The common thread being > > the transfer is initiated on a Linux box. > > > > Remember though, this particular network is on a HUB, i.e. half-duplex. > If there is any other sort of traffic what-so-ever it's going to be > noticeably slower (DNS lookups, Net-BT broadcasts, etc). > > -- > Brian Keefer > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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