HP Microserver, slow in linux/bsd fast in windows.

[webstoney]

Awesome, I'll give it a try.

If you do have 10.04 (that's what I tried it on), this is straightforward:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:polslinux/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade samba
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

then add "max protocol = SMB2" to your smb.conf, and voila.

 

[Red Falcon]

Great info, I managed to get 10.04 up to smbd 3.5.6, and adding that SMB2 protocol broke the 40MB/s barrier to Win7 systems.

Awesome, everyone who wants faster speeds on older distros should use the above info.

Thanks again webstoney.