No problem, glad it helped some :-) If you want to make sure Win2k is the culprit and don't have a separate machine to test with, you can grab an evaluation version of VMware, put it on your Win2k box and install some flavor of UNIX with Samba on it with bridged networking. Then do some test transfers from your current Samba box to the virtual machine running Samba, and see how they turn out. The underlying Win2k on which the virtual machine is running won't affect the SMB traffic, for it will relay it transparently to the virtual machine without even knowing it's SMB traffic. That worked for me in figuring out my Win2k was having trouble receiving from my Samba box (it generated longish traffic pauses for some reason that I still haven't figured out--my thread on that is more down the message list). Installing WinXP in a virtual machine running on the same Win2k box revealed that XP did not exhibit the same behavior, and it was my particular Win2k installation which had the problem.
Good luck. Nicolas Gieczewski Nix Software Solutions http://www.nixsoftware.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Kohlsmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nicolas Gieczewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 13:05 Subject: Re: [Samba] getting rid of NetBIOS > Yes, just make it listen on port 445 by starting samba with the -p 445 > command-line switch. If you have any Win9x/ME clients on your network, > though, they won't like that. ;) That worked beautifully (had to specify a different configuration file so the PID ran elsewhere (I'm running two copies, one over 137-139 and one on 445)... Unfortunately it too seems to limit the size of packets to one ethernet frame. I'm fairly certain it's win2k that is doing this limiting; I have smb.conf set up to allow 65536 byte packets. So it didn't work for what I wanted, but it is running without NetBIOS now :-) Thank you. Regards, Andrew -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
