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


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,

.

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