samba-des has bad performance
Palle Girgensohn
girgen at partitur.se
Tue Dec 9 22:35:20 GMT 1997
Ooops!
Thanks for your comment. I'll go over the file altogether once I get the
speed I want. I hope that the TCP_BUFFERS stuff will do the trick.
Thanks to all who responded!
/Palle
Simon Hyde wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 02:09:49 +1100, you wrote:
>
> >[global]
> > comment = FreeBSD - Samba %v
> > workgroup = Musik
> > printing = bsd
> > printcap name = /etc/printcap
> > load printers = yes
> > guest account = nobody
> >; This next option sets a separate log file for each client. Remove
> >; it if you want a combined log file.
> > log file = /var/log/sambalog.%m
> > dont descend = /dev,/proc,/root,/stand
> > hosts allow = ipnumbers...
> >
> >
> > lock directory = /usr/local/samba/var/locks
> > share modes = yes
> >
> > map archive = no
> > status = yes
> > public = yes
> > read only = no
> > preserve case = yes
> > strip dot = yes
> > security = user
> > encrypt passwords = yes
> > guest ok = no
> > dead time = 10
> >
> >[homes]
> > comment = Home Directories
> > browseable = no
> > read only = no
> > create mode = 0770
> >
>
> I don't know about your speed problem (for that you might want to look at
> Speed.txt in the docs directory of your samba distribution), but you have a
> couple of very wierd options set in your global section, as man smb.conf
> clearly says, 'guest ok' is a synonym for 'public' you are therefore
> setting public to yes and then setting it to no, I'm not quite sure which
> of these samba will take as the one to work with (can't say i've ever
> really felt the need to change an option in the same section as I set it),
> however were it to take the 'public = yes' as it's working param then I
> suspect you would get very undesired results. 'public' is a share
> parameter, not a global one, any values share parameters set in the global
> section are then used as the defaults for all share section, ie were you to
> set 'public = yes' in the [global] section of smb.conf then your [homes]
> share which has no 'public = yes/no' setting would be public. This would in
> effect allow anyone who has access to the server access to the [homes]
> share, of course they would only have the uid of 'guest account' (usually
> defaulting to nobody) however I personally would not take this kind of risk
> and I suspect this is not what you intended.
>
> Hope this is of help,
>
> Simon Hyde
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