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Speed up network between OS X and Windows XP
Authored by: dille on Mar 08, '05 02:18:02PM

I have IPv6 switched off for both network cards (I have a 3Com sitting in my G4 as well), but I still have a sh*tty performance using SMB. I reach maximum speeds (10Mbit, as I'm to cheap to buy a 100Mbit hub while the 10Mbit one still works =] ) using FTP (so that's about 1MB/s), but using SMB I get 64Kbit from the PC to the G4, tops. The other way around is no problem.

Driving me completely bonkers...



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Speed up network between OS X and Windows XP
Authored by: TriNeuro on Mar 09, '05 08:49:53AM

I also experienced really bad transfer rates from a Windows XP machine to my G4, even though the other way around went smooth. So I bugged the smb.conf file a bit, and discovered:

"large readwrite (G)
This parameter determines whether or not smbd(8) supports the new 64k streaming read and write varient SMB requests introduced with Windows 2000. Note that due to Windows 2000 client redirector bugs this requires Samba to be running on a 64-bit capable operating system such as IRIX, Solaris or a Linux 2.4 kernel. Can improve performance by 10% with Windows 2000 clients. Defaults to on. Not as tested as some other Samba code paths."

Why did Apple let this be default when OS X is 32bit until Tiger arrives? So I made a new entry in smb.conf under [Global]:
large readwrite = no

Restarted Windows File Sharing (smbd), and now my transfers are performing well both ways!



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