The opposite of this works also. I think the key to speeding up any network is to hard code into each computer the settings you need. If you are using only TCP then don't have IPX or NetBEUI or whatever else Windows wants to confuse the network with. 10/100 NICs should be hard coded to the speed that the hub or switch expects. DHCP? Some people like it. It makes it easy to add and change computers. It also has some of the problems mentioned by our friend here.
According to Microsoft, "Auto means you auto not do that." Next we need to see the global section of smb.conf and the specific section you are using to share your raid device. Agthorr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:00:43PM -0800, Jim Beard wrote: >> I saw that recent thread about memory and Samba, and I had a >> general Samba usage question that I thought might be appropriate. We >> recently migrated our file server at work from a crappy winblows box to >> a nice RedHat distro. The RedHat box has RAID up and working so we >> thought it would be best to handle the data. Lately we've been having >> some usage issues. We made the RAID device available via Samba over the >> network and sometimes we notice quite a bit of delay in accessing info. >> When someone tries to open a directory it can take anywhere from 30 >> seconds to a minute before they response comes back. Obviously this >> kind of stuff gets annoying on a daily basis. Anyone had a similar >> problem or advice? > >The client is trying to do name resolution. Windows name resolution >is a shaky proposition, and varies between each version of the >operating system, and by the way it's configured. It tries several >techniques, including trying to query a WINS server and simply >broadcasting to the whole network. It sounds like it's trying one >technique, which fails, then falling back to another, which works. > >I recommend making sure that you have a WINS server setup, and making >sure that every machine is setup to use the WINS server (including the >Samba machine). The best way to make Windows boxes using a WINS >Server is by setting the WINS server variable on your DHCP server >(assuming you're using DHCP). There is also a WINS Mode setting which >you will want to set to H-mode, or hyrbrid mode, or 0x08. This will >tell the Windows machines to try contacting the WINS server first, >then broadcasting to the network if that fails. > >-- Agthorr > > > -- Bob Crandell Assured Computing When you need to be sure. Cell 541-914-3985 FAX 240-371-7237 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.assuredcomp.com
