Samba share problems

nemiak · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 19

I'm having a problem accessing samba shares from windows systems on my
lan.

I use winamp on a windows system to play mp3s/oggs off a samba share on
a gentoo system i use as a fileserver.

Winamp periodically "sticks" while playing a song - it seems to be sporadic
and random.

It's happened with different versions of windows on different windows
systems and with different versions of winamp.

I upgraded to samba 3.x and am still having the same problem.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Crim · n00b Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 27

Well without more specifics about your network my suggestion is to mess with the samba buffering

socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_SNDBUF=32768 SO_RCVBUF=32768

Make sure to read the docs. Also maybe increase buffering in winamp, check your network traffic for problems there, excessive collisions etc that may be causing network issues. Finally, if the speed of the servers hard drive is part of the problem look into an alternative file system.

Hope it works out for you.