[Samba] Vista Read/Write performance
John Drescher
drescherjm at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 15:35:48 GMT 2008
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Matt Harris <raven at uberduck.net> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am setting up a smb server running debian etch for a small office.
> Due to circumstances outside my control, most of the client machines are
> running Windows Vista Ultimate. The shares are all set up properly,
> security is set, and we're good to go.
>
> Except that the throughput from any of the Vista machines to the server
> is at best slow and at worst abysmal. After tweaking the socket
> options, turning off various services in windows (Remote Differential
> Compression), and even installing the freshly-released SP1, the best
> I've been able to get is 12.5 MB/s reading from the samba server. SCP
> gets 35-40 MB/s, and Vista to Vista transfers using SMB get 35-40 MB/s.
>
> I'm in the unfortunate position of having to recommend to my boss that
> we put the data on another Vista machine and use that as a makeshift
> file server until this problem can be ironed out. I very much do not
> want to tell him that. Any help anyone can offer would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Matt Harris
>
Since this email is old (I got it in my mailbox today though) you
probably figured it out but I will ask anyways.
Are you using samba-3.0.28a?
John
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