Dear list, Please help save the life of our loyal Linux server. If I can't get this problem fixed soon, the higher-ups are going to order our faithful server to be Euthanized and replaced with a horrible Windows NT Server monstrosity. So to keep our faithful little server from suffering a fate worse than death, any advice would be appreciated.
The situation here is that we have 1 Linux server running Samba, one Windows NT client, and a scad of Windows 9x machines. The problem is that filesharing between the server and the NT machine, and between the server and one of the Windows machines, is having problems. Copying a file from the server to either of those two machines (or opening a file on the server on one of those two machines takes an impossibly long time). Using our database file as an example: it's about 5MB. Copying it between any of the two Windows machines on the network (10BaseT) takes about 5 seconds. Copying it from either of the two problem machines to the server takes about 5 seconds. Copying it from the server to one of the problem machines takes about... two hours. It simply doesn't work. Moving files from the server to either of the two problem machines is basically impossible, it's ridiculously slow. All other network activity seems normal. I made 3 changes about the time the problem started, but I'm almost positive that things were working normally for a time after all these changes were made. 1. Installed a new central hub (I've elimintated the possibility of a physical network problem, though) 2. Moved to Linux 2.4-test3 3. Moved to the ReiserFS filesystem for some of the shared files. Here's the Global section of the smb.conf workgroup = CHURCH netbios name = LAMB server string = Linux server running Samba announce as = NT announce version = 4.2 #bind interface only = YES browse list = YES case sensitive = NO change notify timeout = 90 deadtime = 30 debug level = 0 debug timestamp = YES dns proxy = YES domain logons = YES domain master = YES encrypt passwords = YES getwd cache = YES interfaces = 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.1 keepalive = 7200 load printers = NO local master = YES lm announce = NO lock directory = /var/samba log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m logon drive logon path logon script = %U.bat lpq cache time = 0 mangled stack = 100 max disk size = 1024 max log size = 1024 max xmit = 8192 message command = echo "Message from %f to %t" && cat %s nt pipe support = YES #null password = NO os level = 256 #SUCK IT DOWN #panic = /etc/init.d/samba start passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u preferred master = YES read raw = YES security = user smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 status = YES syslog = 2 syslog only = YES time server= YES unix password sync = YES update encrypted = YES wins proxy = NO wins support = YES write raw = YES Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. -- Craig McPherson Network Admin Baptist Student Union Fayetteville, Arkansas
