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#! rnews 1610 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!arg1.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Big speed difference reading and writing Win95<->Samba Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 01:31:16 +0000 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <32E96264.41C67EA6@net-tel.co.uk> References: <87hgka1677.fsf@pippin.jblhome.ping.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jacob Bohn Lorensen <jacob@jblhome.ping.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34061 Jacob Bohn Lorensen wrote: > I have a small network at home (2 machines. One running FreeBSD > another running Windows95). > > Copying a large file _from_ the FreeBSD box to the local hard drive > I get around 20 Kb/sec. > > Copying large file _from_ the Windows95 box to the FreeBSD box I get > around 350 Kb/sec. You probably need "-O TCP_NODELAY" when starting nmbd. (I recently posted a detailed explanation of why this makes such a difference, to the freebsd-hackers mailinglist - the search engine at www.freebsd.org will probably find it if you want to know).