I have a problem. I've purchased 2 different brand NAS devices that both use Samba in some form as their "sharing" mechanism. When I attach them to the LAN I get dreadful speed. To the tune of under 3.5GB per hour transfers. I've even done tests on the same subnet. Two Windows servers on that vlan can move files at great speeds. Map one of them to the NAS and it crawls. I recall last year setting up a Linux server and seeing a huge slow down then too. That pretty much forced me to move to a Windows server. I know it's LAN related. Something in our Cisco switches must be the inhibitor but I don't know what. I'm taking one of these NAS's home tonite to test there. I expect to see normal speeds. Does anyone know of anything that could cause this from a switch/router IOS perspective? We do have ICMP limited through our WAN, would this be an inhibitor? That wouldn't explain the performance within a VLAN, though, since ICMP works in that VLAN. I'm stumped.
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