Mates:
Here is another clue that may help get to the bottom of this. Back in
the 7.2 days when Samba 2.0X, 2.1X was comming out, the slow transfer issue
appeared with Win98 transfers. The 2 gig limit was also there. The slow
transfer from win to mdk was discussed as a "packet fragmentation" or
"rabbit pellet packet fragmentation" problem by Civileme. The Samba folks
also worked the issue. The issue was evidently resolved for win98, but the
same type of problem could have reared its head again.
I tried to do a archive search for this issue, but for some reason the
archive search daemon would not connect. Anyway, I would suggest an expert
archive search for "packet fragmentation" or "rabbit pellet" to get the
history of the issue. M$ may have changed smb just enough to recreate this
condition and the Samba folks may have some more work to do.
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From: "lorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
> On Monday 01 September 2003 08:10 pm, Michael Viron wrote:
> > Seems like this is related to the stuff discussed in
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321169 and
possibly
> > in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321098 .
> >
> > You may also want to try running regedit to do the following:
> >
> > go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current
> > Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace" in the registry
> >
> > remove {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} .
> >
> First I apologize for not reporting what I found yesterday. I had already
> tried the top two things to no avail yesterday. I tried removing the above
> key and it made no difference at all. As we speak I'm transferring 285MB
of
> data from the Linux box to the XP box and it has been 8 minutes so far and
my
> guess is that it will take another 9 - 10 minutes. If I do it from my
linux
> server and copy it to the xp box, it will blast over in about 2 minutes or
> less!!
>
> > The above key instructs windows to look for scheduled tasks on the pc in
> > question (which may slow done browsing by at least 30s).
> >
> > Also take a look at
> >
>
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Windows/Windows_XP/?tc=1
> , which includes about a hundred windows xp related
> > sites of tips / tweaks / guides and howtos.
> >
> > Just some thoughts,
> >
> Thanks a bunch Michael. I've started looking them over. As you know, it is
> somewhat like looking for a needle in a haystack. I'm home sick today, so
> I'll do some more "googling" to see if someone has come up with a "fix"
for
> this.
>
> If I forgot to mention, SP1 does NOT make a difference for my particular
> problem. Also, I'm using mdk 9.1 with out of the box Samba. Nothing
> "special". I'm running 100Bt Half duplex hub. XP to XP fast. XP to ME
fast.
> Linux to XP fast. XP to Linux slooooowwwww. ??? This one has me stumped.
What
> is interesting.... is I swear when I was running older versions of
Mandrake I
> don't recall this slowness. So even though I've bashed XP, perhaps it has
> been premature. I just thought of this.
> > Michael
> >
> > --
> > Michael Viron
> > Core Systems Group
> > Simple End User Linux
> >
> > At 04:30 PM 9/1/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> > >On Monday 01 September 2003 03:48 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
> > >> Greg Meyer wrote:
> > >> >On Monday 01 September 2003 03:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
> > >> >>I was the one who asked the question about slow transfers using
Samba.
> > >> >>I asked on this list and on the newbie list. Still have not
received
> > >> >>any answers resolving the issue.
> > >> >>
> > >> >>When a transfer to or from a Samba box is initiated from a Win2000
box
> > >> >>it flies. When the same transfer is initiated from a Samba box to
> > >> >>either another Samba box, or to a Win2000 box, it crawls at around
1/3
> > >> >>the speed of the Win2000 initiated transfer. Is this expected
> > >> >> behavior?
> > >> >
> > >> >I think the op of this thread had the slowness going the other way.
> > >> > Samba to XP is fast, while XP to samba is fast. In any case, it
> > >> > always seems to be a problem with the configuration of the windows
> > >> > machines, not the samba machines.
> > >>
> > >> Windows to Samba was only half of my comment. An incorrect Windows
> > >> configuration doesn't explain a slow Samba to Samba transfer.
> > >
> > >I would agree from smb to smb, but I really don't believe this is an
> > >"incorrect windows configuration" issue. There is a fundamental issue
that
> > > I believe Microsoft has done to deliberately break or slow samba. I
may
> > > be wrong, but I've not seen a solution yet. I did read somewhere that
you
> > > now
> >
> > no
> >
> > >longer need netbios resolution for XP to work, but I don't think this
is
> > > the problem. If anything that would help without a wins server. ??
> > >
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> > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
>
>
>
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