samba times out during transfer

[joe]

David Vincent wrote:
>
> are both desktops linux?  switch to nfs and get a huge speed increase.
> i now get about 4mb/s over my 802.11g network and timeouts are a thing
> of the past.
Yes the machines in question are both ubuntu, but I have found NFS 
difficult to configure under Ubuntu. I will perhaps make a separate post 
about that one.

Thanks for the advice,
    Joe.