Re: IN your opinion what is the best way to share files between LInux and MAC OS X?

On May 31, 11:46 am, navti <nav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
so it must be something up with samba.

time for wireshark it would seem.

though running wireshark and understanding its output are 2 different
things,

Problem Solved.

It was a setting in the default /etc/samba/smb.conf which was causing
the problem

Ironically the author said it speeded up his Samba server !!

; This socket options really speed up Samba under Linux, according to
my
; own tests.
socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096
SO_RCVBUF=4096

I commented out the socket options line

; This socket options really speed up Samba under Linux, according to
my
; own tests.
; socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096
SO_RCVBUF=4096

and restarted samba -> /etc/init.d/samba restart

I guess the SNDBUF and RCVBUF settings are too low,

yes that was the culprit alright, i set them high SO_RCBUF=128000
SO_SNDBUF=128000
and it worked fine,

it just shows you can often overtweak config files and end up breaking
the whole thing,

thats why i always avoid altering such settings unless I have to,

.

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