Douglas just needs to add the following line to the global 
section of smb.conf file.

socket options = TCP_NODELAY

This is already enabled in the pkgsrc smb.conf.sample file.

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:22:17 -0700 Jason R Thorpe 
<thorpej@zembu.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:41:18PM -0500, Douglas Egan wrote:
> 
>  > I am not really sure.  The samba help talks about 2 options:
>  > 
>  > TCP_NODELAY  This effects the transmit side right, sending before the
>  >              buffer is filled
> 
> Correct.
> 
>  > IPTOS_LOWDELAY   (is this the same as delay ack)
> 
> No -- this affects "type of service routing".  It's not affecting you,
> I'm pretty sure :-)
> 
>  > Anyway I want to try to see what gives with my poor performance between
>  > win2k and my samba server running on netbsd.
>  > 
>  > The message before talked about delayed ack, so I will start there.
>  > 
>  > Any help appreciated.
> 
> Well, I have a hard time believing that delayed ack is adversely
> affecting your performance.  TCP_NODELAY is probably the best thing
> to try first.  Do you have to enable some special option when you
> build Samba in order for Samba to use this?
> 
> -- 
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
> 

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