Speeding up file tranfer

[Charles Marcus]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Ivan Guštin
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 1:06 PM
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Speeding up file tranfer
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have Linux+Samba server in one LAN. Clients are mostly DOS.
> They are using
> samo DOS application which sometimes makes backups of main
> database files in
> another directory. The size of these files is 70+ MB. Application uses DOS
> COPY command, so that operation takes very long time (around 5 minutes).
>
> When I try to copy with "cp file1 file2" it takes just 25 seconds. I am
> looking for any posibility of speeding up this file transfer.
>
> First of all, have anybody any suggestions of configuring Samba to have
> better file tranfer? I read all suggestions in "Using Samba" book, but I
> don't get any major improvement.
>
> These backup file transfer is internal and "must be" in DOS
> application and
> I cannot make any change to use another way for file copying, but I am
> thinking to "fake" DOS COPY command to lounch "cp" command on
> server localy.
>
> Have anybody any such experiences? Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
>
> Bye,
> Ivan Gustin, ivan at elin.hr
> ELIN Elektronika i informatika, http://www.elin.hr
>
>
>
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