From owner-freebsd-qa Tue Dec 25 10:50:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4480437B41A; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:50:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail2.uniserve.com ([204.244.156.10]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 16Iweu-000GlJ-00; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:50:40 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:50:40 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@athena.uniserve.ca To: Keith J Cc: Peter Ong , Robert Watson , Nevermind , Murray Stokely , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing In-Reply-To: <001801c18d50$581425a0$3602a8c0@columbus.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Keith J wrote: ... > Another possibility is you do not have a Samba problem, but a network > problem with auto-negotiate. Some older 10/100 cards and switch combinations > step all over each other. You should lock down one end to a specific speed ... That is bad advice. Auto-negotiation is not auto-detect. If you disable auto-negotiate at one end and specify manual settings, you must disable it on the other end too, and specify the SAME manual settings. Either use auto-negotiate everywhere, or use manual everywhere. I would recommend using auto everywhere. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message