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Date:      Mon, 3 Nov 2003 12:35:57 -0600
From:      "Micheal Patterson" <micheal@tsgincorporated.com>
To:        "Gabriel Ambuehl" <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Samba drives me nuts XP is slow to crawl with it
Message-ID:  <07c901c3a239$546beaa0$0201a8c0@dredster>
References:  <194129572734.20031103091315@buz.ch>

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gabriel Ambuehl" <gaml@buz.ch>
To: <questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 2:13 AM
Subject: Samba drives me nuts XP is slow to crawl with it


> I have a two IBM Thinkpads running XP Pro who should access a
> Samba machine (3.0.0 on STABLE), one of them can do that perfectly,
> the other gets about 100kb/s connection. Between each other, the work
> at full speed and if I have the server mount shares from the Thinkpad,
> it's fast as well. People on the net suggest deactivating webclient
> service which I did, to no avail. Has anyone got any other pointers?
>

I had that same problem earlier this year when I moved from win2k to winxp.
Try adding oplocks = no to your smb.conf file in the default section.

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Micheal Patterson
TSG Network Administration
405-917-0600

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