Samba, Windows XP issues

anorman · 10-04-2004, 08:12 AM

Seemingly overnight, I am having major problems connecting to my samba server from an XP machine. I can get a directory listing, and even browse, but the moment I access a file, it freezes. From a windows 98 machine there is no problem. I have tested it from both XP sp2 machines and machines that did not have sp2 installed, same problem. Could it be a bug with the newest version of samba? Anyone else with these problems? Any thoughts on how to fix it?

Thanks,
Norman

jackasslinux · 10-04-2004, 10:02 AM

Simple!
Just add this line
use sendfile=no

in the [global] section of your smb.conf

This will work.
Don't forget to restart samba.

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anorman · 10-04-2004, 10:05 AM

Thanks!

That did the trick. Very strange, but very simple.

-anorman