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matt_hargett
Mar 18, 2012Tutor
[4.1.9-T6] samba crash and general feedback
First, let me say a big THANK YOU for upgrading the Samba to a version that supports SMB2. Several friends and myself had all manually upgraded to Samba 3.6.1 (and then to 3.6.3) in order to make iTun...
Skywalker
Mar 22, 2012NETGEAR Expert
matt_hargett wrote: After researching and experimenting for months with jumbo frames, socket options, and other things that made small differences, turning on SMB2 seemed to be the last thing that resolved my problem. That being said, when I then worked backward -- keeping SMB2 enabled while reverting other configuration changes -- the improvements were diminished. Here is an excerpt of the diff between the original smb.conf and the new one I was using:
So when you were using the Samba 3.5 from 4.1.9-T6, did you disable SMB2? You would also have to reboot the Windows client to stop using SMB2, because Windows tends to remember that we used to support it from its initial negotiation, and keeps using it -- and Samba will go along with it, even if max protocol is set to NT1.
Also, how many image files are in your test directory when it takes 10 minutes to display a single image? Is this over a wired or wireless connection?
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