On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 12:13, Anson Rinesmith wrote: > I have SLOW file transfers across samba to my Windows Server 2000 domain. > > I am using a built in 100bT Intel Pro NIC, I have tried the built in gigabit > NIC and a PCI 3com, all with the same results. > > Using iperf, I get about 45-90Mb of bandwidth from my PC's to my samba > server. > > I can pull it up by \\servername <file:///\\servername> or \\ipaddress > <file:///\\ipaddress> with out any issues. I can ping servername > successfully. > > It is taking about 15 minutes to just pull across a 10mb file. > > I've seen a lot of complaints about this on the web via "google" but no one > seems to have conquered it. > > Anyone have a fix for this? I would owe you a steak dinner. ---- of course, you didn't say where...
most of the time, this is caused by 100 baseT switch with 4 wire (2 pair) cables - cat 3 cables on cat 5 connection. causes hell with auto-negotiation. what is output of ifconfig? Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
