Windows -> Linux Networking

Kopf

I have a 10mbit network with 2 computers. One is linux dedicated (server), the other has Linux and Windows also. When I'm in linux on both boxen, data transfers at 1mb per second (as it should).. But... When i reboot into windows, and try to transfer files from the server to the windows box over samba or ftp, it goes at 8kbps.. Which is pretty much unusuable.

Anyone have any ideas?

Kopf

And just as a note, i just discovered something strange:

copying a file from windows to linux works great, even though from linux to windows it's awful. Phaxx experienced this problem with BSD -> Linux.

Hecate

I had exactly the same problem with Win2k/Linux network. Woefully slow connections when transferring files between the two, more often than not it would just time out.

Funnily enough a Win98 machine on the same network had no such problems

I tried loads of stuff to get it sorted but eventually ended up just replacing the NIC in the Linux box with a 10mbit card. Lo and behold it was fixed!.

It was obviously the cheapo NIC in the linux machine that was the problem, it wasnt even a pci or isa card; just somthing that plugged into a socket on the mainboard. Check that you dont have anything similar in your machine.

Kopf

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hecate:
I had exactly the same problem with Win2k/Linux network. Woefully slow connections when transferring files between the two, more often than not it would just time out.

Funnily enough a Win98 machine on the same network had no such problems

I tried loads of stuff to get it sorted but eventually ended up just replacing the NIC in the Linux box with a 10mbit card. Lo and behold it was fixed!.

It was obviously the cheapo NIC in the linux machine that was the problem, it wasnt even a pci or isa card; just somthing that plugged into a socket on the mainboard. Check that you dont have anything similar in your machine.</font>

Hmm yeah mine's a "Trust PCI 10mbit netword card", uhm.. that's about all i know got it in a "network starter kit", the thing is, i don't see why it should work fine between the 2 unices, but when windows is introduced, it goes haywire..

Hobbes

I don't have any problems at all? I have 10/100 NW but the laptop with linux is 10mbit and pc is 10/100mbit.

You using the latest version of Samba? Because I know there was a problem with W2K SP2 with the old version.

Kopf

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hobbes:
I don't have any problems at all? I have 10/100 NW but the laptop with linux is 10mbit and pc is 10/100mbit.

You using the latest version of Samba? Because I know there was a problem with W2K SP2 with the old version.</font>

I'd say i'm using the most up-to-date (slak8), but like, even ftp goes slowly, so it's not a problem with samba

Hecate

Yeah the problem wasnt confined to Samba alone; all of the services on the machine were running slowly. Even Apache had problems serving pages properly, ie: loading half of the page and then stopping.

Have you tried connecting directly to the machines ip address?, rather than putting in whatever netbios names it might have?

Also, try using the tcpdump command from the console, it will probably throw up a load of garbage but if it pauses a lot when you're transferring data its probably a tcp/ip problem or somthing wrong with the nic.

Kopf

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hecate:
Yeah the problem wasnt confined to Samba alone; all of the services on the machine were running slowly. Even Apache had problems serving pages properly, ie: loading half of the page and then stopping.

Have you tried connecting directly to the machines ip address?, rather than putting in whatever netbios names it might have?

Also, try using the tcpdump command from the console, it will probably throw up a load of garbage but if it pauses a lot when you're transferring data its probably a tcp/ip problem or somthing wrong with the nic.
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Indeed. I haven't tried using tcpdump, but I always connect to the IP address directly.

RiCo

Get Samba Update @ ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/updates/8.0/RPMS/
Ther are some fixes relating to file transfer..

:d

Kopf

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hobbes:
If it's ftp, check to make sure you don't have limits put on per user on the ftp server.

Or you could try passive mode or switch passive mode off if it's on.
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Nope, when I transfer files over ftp from linux to linux it works great, but when i reboot into windows..... ;(

moist

Could be a lot of things, timeouts on DNS lookups, dod*** routing, autonegotiating the
speed of the network interface.
Its hard to tell without knowing all the
sordid details about your network and machines.

Hobbes

If it's ftp, check to make sure you don't have limits put on per user on the ftp server.

Or you could try passive mode or switch passive mode off if it's on.