Comment 8 for bug 84782

BAD realtek 8169 module
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Hi Everyone, I hope this helps. I posted this with BUG 95460.. sorry about the dupe)

I had a similar problem on Feisty ( 2.6.20-15-generic and 2.6.20-16-generic) with SAMBA going REALLY REALLY slow.
Tried alll sorts of smb.conf tweeks.. no luck.

However I noticed that SAMBA access would go fast when 2 different windowze machines were basically accessing the same files

I eventually resolved it by downloading and compiling a new module/driver for the on board Realtek NIC
The default install of Feisty created a module r8169 for my machine.
I downloaded and compiled a new driver/module for RTL8111B/RTL8168B/RTL8111/RTL8168/RTL8111C NIC from the Realtek site:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=5&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

Followed the readme instructions to build and install.
After rebooting I found I had the 2 modules (r8169 and r8168) loaded :-(

So I manually removed both and then manually loaded the r8168 module
'bounced the network (/etc/init.d/networking restart) and presto.. super fast SAMBA access

Btw the msdfs proxy made absolutely no difference for me.