Hi there,

Using smbclient to connect to shares on Win9x clients results in writing
at a speed of 10K per second, compared to read speeds of 5-600K per second.

This appears to be a samba versions 2.0.3 to 2.0.5 bad interaction with
Linux. It does not appear on a locally compiled copy of 2.0.5 on Solaris,
for instance.

Slow writing speeds are seen with the stock redhat kernel, 2.2.13, and with
the latest 2.2.14pre13 from Alan Cox. I don't have any non-i386 machines
to test other platforms with, but I would imagine that they suffer this
problem too.

The 2.0.6 release of samba does not exhibit this problem, and write speeds
of 3-400K per second are seen with RPMS compiled from the RedHat spec file,
without Patch6 (which was incorporated into samba 2.0.6 by the look of
things).

Regards,

Mark