Nod. I had a simple server running on a P60 with 16MB RAM and a
reasonably fast 850MB hard drive. The machine serves a half-dozen Win95
workstations and until recently was using a (16-bit ISA) 10Base2/5 NIC we
pulled from a 286. "A 16-bit card is a 16-bit card," I reasoned. Heh. I
swapped it recently for a generic PnP ISA 16-bit 10BaseT card (Linksys)
and speed improved measurably. Using the shared volumes is no longer
painful, and print-jobs begin almost instantly. (Bumping up to 48MB RAM
and a reasonably quick, though no speed demon, Bigfoot Quantum 4 GB hard
drive, also helped considerably.)
Now, it's fast enough to do whatever we throw at it and then some. I was
amazed at the performance increase.
> At 18:21 5/8/98 -0700, David S Edwards wrote:
> >I was wondering if anyone has had a problem with Win 95 applications (like
> >Excel) running really slow when accessing a samba network drive. Or does
> >anyone have a recommended tweak on samba that might speed things up for my
> >Win 95 clients that access my RH 5.0 server through samba?
>
> Like any fileserver, make sure your Linux box has a fast disk, enough
> memory and a good network card.
>
> Tony
>
>
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