On Jan 18, 2008 1:46 PM, Will Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm seeing slow transfers to/from my samba server. I just tried to copy a > 270MB file from a samba share to an XP machine. At first, the estimated > time > displayed as 141 minutes :(
> The odd thing is that if I then flood-ping from the server (in this case, > I > pinged my dsl router), the transfer completes in about 10 seconds. Hitting > F5 repeatedly when browsing a share on the server also causes an increase > of > speed. I seem to get *more* throughput when there's a higher load.. > Watching > a video off a samba share is quite choppy and keeps stopping but leaving > the > ping running seems to fix it. > Microsoft's estimates are known to be completely off a lot of times. If you do not make any load on the server how long does the transfer take? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
