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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Big speed difference reading and writing Win95<->Samba
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 01:31:16 +0000
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Jacob Bohn Lorensen wrote:
> I have a small network at home (2 machines. One running FreeBSD
> another running Windows95).
> 
> Copying a large file _from_ the FreeBSD box to the local hard drive
> I get around 20 Kb/sec.
> 
> Copying large file _from_ the Windows95 box to the FreeBSD box I get
> around 350 Kb/sec.

You probably need "-O TCP_NODELAY" when starting nmbd.

(I recently posted a detailed explanation of why this makes such
a difference, to the freebsd-hackers mailinglist - the search
engine at www.freebsd.org will probably find it if you want to know).