I cannot get samba to work between the guest and host. The host is windows XP 32 bit. The guest is Fedora Core 8. I have samba working and running fine on the guest FC8, I can connect to it from my win XP host (it asks for user name and password - which I enter successfully) and I can browse the folders, make new folders on the Samba server - and they show up on the FC8 guest.
Firewall is setup to allow Samba connections (as evidenced below - other systems can connect just fine)
However, when I try to copy a file to or from the Samba server to or from the host, it times out and says the share is no longer available. I can copy small files (1KB) but anything larger than that fails.
Other systems on the network can use the Samba server fine (I copied a 3GB file no problem to and from another machine).
I've been wracking my brain for 3 days on this now, but I can't figure it out.
Anyone have any ideas what might cause this?
Hmm... Windows XP as host? Check advanced settings for host NIC, disable any Offloading, Jumbo frame support and so on...
Wow, I changed those settings on the windows host for both NICs: Checksum offloading -> Disable, MTU -> 1500, Segmentation offloading -> disable. That fixed it! I also changed the MTU in the guest back to 1500. I previously had the MTU at 9000.
Thank you very much!