Should you try add the 2 XP entries to /etc/resolv.conf, so that samba can works more comfortable?
Stuart Howard wrote: >Hi > >I have a small LAN at home with 2 winXP and 1 Gentoo [genstu] machines >connected through a combined ADSLrouter etc. >I have a problem whereby, I seem to have very slow data transfer >speeds between my Gentoo machine and my XP machines as a guide here >are some figures > >Transfer of a 66Mb file :- >XP->gen 90 secs 700KB/s >gen->XP 30 secs 2700KB/s >XP->XP 7 secs ?KB/s > >The share on genstu is samba and I have also tried Winscp which gives >a little improvement in performance but not much. >The hardware is all relatively new and the NIC's were cheap and >cheerful but 10/100. >Some output:- >lspci >0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] MX987x5 (rev 25) >dmesg >tulip0: Index #251 - Media 10baseT(forced) (#12) described by a 21140 >non-MII (0) block. >tulip0: Index #252 - Media 10baseT-FDX (#20) described by a 21140 >non-MII (0) block. >tulip0: Index #253 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) >block. >tulip0: Index #254 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) >block. > > >Originally I thought it would be Samba and my poor attempt at >configuration but I am becoming more convinced that it may be a NIC >issue or more likely the kernel and my configuration of that >especially since I saw that dmesg output, the kernel was built using >genkernel origianlly and has been updated once [make oldconfig] I also >tried out my pure genkernel config and recieved the same performance. > >If anyone can suggest a solution :) > >or more reasonably somewhere to look it would be most grateful, as at >the moment I have too many places to look for a problem with no guide >ie. could it be the NIC, kernel, samba, XP, protocols or even because >I just forgot to say please. > >Anyway thx for reading > >stu > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
