Hmmmm.... I have never had this problem at all, and keep all my mp3's and vids on the samba server. The box I play Mp3's on is behind a switch and a hub.
My Samba box is an old 166Mhz with 65M of memory to compensate a bit for its less than blinding speed processor. The box is gets fairly busy as well with firewalling (OMG!), X11, and Apache / MRTG on a cable modem (call me crazy!). Another possibility is you do not have a Samba problem, but a network problem with auto-negotiate. Some older 10/100 cards and switch combinations step all over each other. You should lock down one end to a specific speed and if 100Mbs, try full duplex. Another thing to consider... if you are running 100, make sure its Cat5 cable and not a left over hunk of Cat3 confusing the card into negotiation. The only other thing I recall having problems was using tcpwrappers trying to fire multiple copies of the dameons, but that resulted in complete lack of response and many messages about too many copies running. I did notice, and the doc's point this out, you need to make a choice between login's and plain ole shares. When I tried to do both, it was extremely erractic. Since I wanted some disk space privacy, I opted for login's with links from my user space to a common area with the Mp3's to emulate a share. The only "problem" with login's it is separate file that is not automatically synched with passwd changes and becomes a two step process. The only other possible difference is I do not run printers via Samba, and instead let netbios figure it out. Good luck... hope this helps... someone, somewhere, someday <g> Keith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Ong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Nevermind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Murray Stokely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 5:13 PM Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing > I apologize if I'm off. But it seems you guys are talking about improving > FBSD 4.5 networking performance. > > I am currently using FreeBSD 4.4 Release. It works great, but there is that > one problem Samba. I like Samba because it's functional. I don't know if > it's Samba's fault, or if it's BSD's fault, but it behaves very erratically. > Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it's slow. > > When I used RH7.1, I installed Samba there as well. Samba worked fine, but > also with the same behavior. But it was somewhat more reliable on RH than > FreeBSD. I don't know if it's Samba itself or the OS, although I'm inclined > to say it is Samba. If so, disregard this message. > > When I used RH/Samba, I put all of my MP3 music there. I'd listen to it on > Winamp from my Win98 laptop. It worked fine... no skips. But when I put > it on FreeBSD, the first minute or so is skip free, but as it passes that > time limit it starts skipping... I mean, it blanks out as if it's readying > the cache faster than it's being transfered over the network. My network is > 10/100Mbits switched. > > The difference is now only the operating system. The box is a P3/450/128MB. > It had RH, then it moved to FreeBSD. Now, I'm having that problem. Videos > are even worse. I have some *.mov, and Real movie files, that I must first > download, and then I watch. I can't watch it over the wire. > > This is just my two cents. Maybe 5 cents. Thanks. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Nevermind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Murray Stokely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 10:53 AM > Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing > > > > > > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Nevermind wrote: > > > > > Hello, Murray Stokely! > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 04:30:37PM -0800, you wrote: > > > > > > > There were some problems with the network performance of FreeBSD 4.4 > > > > that were never discovered during the release candidates phase, so I'd > > > > like to take a more pro-active role in getting users to test the > > > > system in more demanding environments. > > > > > > > > A complete list of changes is available in the 4.5-PRERELEASE > > > > release notes, available at : > > > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/ > > > > > > Could you, please, include in Relnotes that Java will be included in > > > 4.5? > > > > I have't seen that support actually appear in ports/packages-land as yet, > > but I greatly look forward to that happening. It would probably be > > appropriate to wait until the details have been committed before > > documenting it. > > > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
