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
This is fixed in the samba in Raw Hide, as it's 2.0.6. Other people have noted success with installing some of the TCP hotfixes from Microsoft.