i currently have a problem with transferring items from my unraid server be that moving or even watching videos on my android box.

 

if i copy a file from a share using the server name as the location e.g. \\tower\media\ then i get low speeds of about 10mb/s. if i use the address \\10.0.0.2\media\ then the speed starts off at 100mb/s and then lowers to about 60mb/s

 

what could be causing such a thing. the server has a static ip and is currently using the same dns server as the rest of my network

I am seeing much the same behavior but I can't pin down any set of circumstances that either cause it not to work or to work.  As I result, I haven't posted up about it.  (I thought I had it figured out some thing a week or ten days ago but it has cropped up again. Although, I did the monthly 'Automatic' updates on all of my computers about that time.)

 

I am running Windows 7 Home.  This has been discussed in the rc4 thread.  You can read about it here:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=53689.msg516457#msg516457

 

As you will read, apparently, there are some issues with SMB/Samba version in the kernel release that unRAID is using.  I had thought that maybe some of it was related to something that MS was doing on their end and the SMB/Samba Linux team had caught up with everything--- yet you are having issues with an Android device...