[wellylug] Samba Issue

[Phillip Hutchings]

Wow, it's Samba causing that. I never noticed because 99% of the time
I use my mac. OS X goodness :)


On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 01:30:37 -0700, Ian Sterling <xyverz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a problem with this from time to time with my windows machines
> trying to run files (mostly self-extracting installers and the like)
> on my samba shares.  At the same time I could be doing stuff over nfs,
> and playing mp3s from another share and everything would be fine.  No
> idea what causes this.  It usually takes about 35 seconds or so before
> everything's working fine again.  No idea what causes it.  Buf if
> anybody knows, I'm willing to learn!
> 
> --Ian...
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 21:24:49 +1300, Chris Hodgetts <chris at archnetnz.com> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this and can help..
> >
> > I have a couple of Samba shares on a machine for the single Windows
> > machine on my home network, and just within the last two weeks..
> >
> > When ever you try and access the share on both Linux and Windows it
> > stalls the application trying to access them..
> >
> > EG: Nautilus stalls when you try to open a file, or try to get the file
> > properties - likewise with Exploiter or Open Office...
> >
> > I have this in my smb.conf file:
> > socket options = TCP_NODELAY
> >
> > I understand this improves performance on the connection - however I
> > cant see anything else in there that would cause this issue.
> >
> > It happens on all Shares and on all clients...
> >
> > Thanks in advance :)
> >
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