I previously posted this to the linux.samba mailing list. I'm not sure that was the right place, so here it is again. Apologies if you've already seen it.
Hi, I would really appreciate any hep with a big problm I'm having with XP (Pro / SP1 ) transferring to a samba share. The transfer starts off OK, using about 66% of my 100Mbs network. Then, after about 10-15 seconds, it drops off to 25%, then after abuot 30 seconds, drops off again to close to zero. After some amount of time ( perhaps 30 seconds to a minute ), sometimes the speed picks up again. (following the pattern above ) The two computers are linked via a netgear 100Mb hub. The XP box has a 3com etherlink PCI card ( set to auto sense media / 3c???c ), and the samba box is running a netgear FA311 ( I think I remembered the code OK! ) 100Mbs, which seems to use 100Mbs-HD. I am using Kernel 2.4.20 / Samba ( latest - downloaded yesterday in case this was a samba problem ). I have tried forcing both cards to full-duplex, and this results in complete network failure on the XP side, but normal operation on the linux side. I am seeing 'browser election' messages in the xp event log, when i force the full-duplex setting, but not in auto-sense mode. I'm running this network for my fiance, a photographer, and we are looking at transferring >40Gb across this link. I have checked the QoS settings in XP, and they appear to be ok. I dont have another XP box on which to test XP->XP speeds, so I dont know where the problem may lie. Any suggestions would be most gratefully received!! Thanks! James -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
