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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 1997 12:14:28 -0500
From:      dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPFW + Samba -> performance problem
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970114121426.00a0ad40@etinc.com>

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At 05:29 PM 1/14/97 +0100, you wrote:
>At 10:27 AM 1/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>Using "SAMBA" and "Performance" in the same sentence is poor
>>english.
>
>I've found tweaked Samba to usually have acceptable performance (>90% of
>network bandwidth as transfer speed.) The problems that are present seems
>to be mainly related to client bugs.  Some of them trigger on Samba not
>doing the exact same things as WindowsNT og LANmanager - as an example,
>Win3.11, Win95, WinNT 3.51 and WinNT 4.0 all have *different* bugs in the
>code for handling unencrypted passwords.  (And I know these to be bugs - I
>wrote the code to go around them myself.)
>
>Anyway; what SMB-manager for UNIX do you suggest, for best performance?  Or
>what other system, for connecting WinNT 4.0 clients?

I suggest dumping LAN manager, because that is the problem. We use
Netcon's IPX server....

Dennis



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