[KLUG Members] slow samba performance...

[Mark Bystry]

i have been cruising the net trying to figure out why file transfers to my red hat 9.0 box are 
slower (from my client winxp box) than they are to the windows 2003 server box. copying a 30 mg file 
to the windows server takes about 5 seconds. the same file take 30 seconds to send to the linux server.

   my ethernet card on my client is set to auto detect. i have tried 100mbs/full duplex, 100mbs/half
duplex, 10mbs/full, and 10mbs/half. auto detect is still the fastest but can't hold a candle to
windows at this point.

   i have never had performance issues before. so not sure if it's my client or the file server. 
have any of you ever experienced this? i just formatted and configured my workstation with windows 
xp pro sp2 with all windows patches. this is my client station. i do this about once a year for good 
house keeping.