Theoretical Samba File Server

Jonathan Hutchins hutchins at opus1.com
Sat Oct 27 18:54:26 CDT 2001


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven L. Brendtro [mailto:sbrendtro at home.com]

> Could I possibly run into problems with SAMBA sending too 
> much broadcast traffic, reducing the throughput for my other network 
> segments on the same box?

Samba shouldn't be broadcasting if you set it up so it's not polling for
browser elections and such.  NetBEUI or IPS/SPX would broadcast a lot, but
you should be ok with TCP/IP.




More information about the Kclug mailing list