Topic: Slow Samba serving

[David Furst]

Fresh install. I can send files to the e-smith box from my W95 machine at normal speeds, but when copying back I get throughputs of a few K a second.  I love e-smith, but this one is a real killer for a new Linux user.

[David Furst]

If I try to copy back to the W95 machine the throughput is V slow.
If the info is in the Linux disk cache (i.e. I've already copied it to the W95 machine) the throughput is what I'd expect.

No obvious problems with the network connection apart from some collisions when copying to the Linux box.

No obvious problems with the IDE disk subsystem either - this is just a test system, so the disk is only 2 gig.  The processor is an old P166, 32 Megs of memory, only 1 network card (Intel Pro 100+).

Everything else is fine - tried ps -e    Nothing seemed to be using large amounts of time..  Any logs I should check?

[alejandro]

If You have previously installed Windows 98 SE Internet shared connection it could be the problem, the machine tha was running shared connection acts as an dhcp server and generates conflicts with e-smith's dhcp own server.
possible solution
remove shared internet connection component from windows setup
remove any other program acting as gateway or look for modificatios that programs could have done
run winipcfg to check the status of the ip assignments and dhcp service.
the last, as always: do a start from scratch "fresh install the windows machine"

This is not an act of knowledge, but it surelly works!
regards,
Alejandro