Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 12:14:28 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW + Samba -> performance problem Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970114121426.00a0ad40@etinc.com>
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At 05:29 PM 1/14/97 +0100, you wrote: >At 10:27 AM 1/14/97 -0500, you wrote: >>Using "SAMBA" and "Performance" in the same sentence is poor >>english. > >I've found tweaked Samba to usually have acceptable performance (>90% of >network bandwidth as transfer speed.) The problems that are present seems >to be mainly related to client bugs. Some of them trigger on Samba not >doing the exact same things as WindowsNT og LANmanager - as an example, >Win3.11, Win95, WinNT 3.51 and WinNT 4.0 all have *different* bugs in the >code for handling unencrypted passwords. (And I know these to be bugs - I >wrote the code to go around them myself.) > >Anyway; what SMB-manager for UNIX do you suggest, for best performance? Or >what other system, for connecting WinNT 4.0 clients? I suggest dumping LAN manager, because that is the problem. We use Netcon's IPX server.... Dennis
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