[ale] SAMBA - NT Speed

[Jeff Hubbs]

I don't have a real definitive answer, but do you know if there is a
buffer control in Win2K?  In Win95/98, in SYSTEM.INI there is a [386enh]
section where you can put the line
"Irq<irq_number_of_ethernet_card>=4096" to create a 4MB buffer.  You
also might wan to make sure that your NICs are really running in duplex
mode if your switch supports it.  If you're on a 10base-T hub, you may
not be able to do any better than what you're getting just because of
collisions.  It may well be that SMB is more collision-happy than FTP.

- Jeff

bkruger at mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> I was just copying some large isos from a Linux server runing kernel
> 2.4.2 to a NT 2000 machine.  I noticed that the transfer speed was
> pretty slow, e.g. it took 13 minutes to copy 600 megs from the Linux box
> using SAMBA to the NT machine.
> 
> Does anyone have any hints on speeding this up?  Transfering the files
> via ftp completes the transfer in less than a third of the time.
> 
> Regards - Bob Kruger
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