Samba config for Win7 clients

 
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Old 08-07-2013
Samba config for Win7 clients

Hi Guys,

Kindly advise what options/settings needed in smb.conf to support win7.

currently we are experiencing slow connection issues from our recently upgraded win7 from XP to our Samba server ver. 3.0.33-3.7.el5_3.1
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Old 08-07-2013
if there were no changes to the samba server, your issue is more likely a misconfiguration with the network port settings on your recently upgraded win7 desktops ...

make sure your win7 desktops' network ports are set to the same settings as their corresponding ports on the switches they are attached to ... if the switch port is set to Auto/Auto, then the desktop network port needs to be set to Auto/Auto also ...
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