[Samba] Transfer rates faster than 23MBps?

Mark Smith msmith at customflix.com
Wed Sep 20 02:09:32 GMT 2006


Jeremy Allison wrote:
> An interesting thing you could do is to use a port of smbclient
> on Windows (no I don't know where to get one :-) to copy the
> client to the Windows client in userspace. smbclient will use
> read pipelining (ie. issue more than one read at a time) whereas
> Windows clients issue one read, wait for response, issue the next
> read, wait for response etc.

I will try using smbclient from a Linux client and see how that compares 
to using the Linux kernel's SMB implementation.  That's easy to do.  :)

I'll see what I can do to get smbclient compiled in Windows.  Oy.  This 
should be interesting..

-Mark


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