Samba ist very slow

[eirvine]

Hi,

mjorda at berlitz.de wrote:
> 
> Hello list members,
> 
> ist' really a pain in the neck ..... running samba as PDC and
> everything is working fine but ... if a user tries to open a Word,
> Excel, PDF etc. document by double clicking on the file in the
> explorer it take 30 to 50 seconds to open a 5 kb file. This is not
> always like that but mostly - very strange. With explorer and copy I
> don't have that problem.
> I found in a news group a solution. They said, the caus of the prob
> is an incorrerctly defaulted parameter, which affects programs
> opening files but does not affect copying files with explorer. So,
> they recommended to put 4 lines in the smb.conf to solve the prob.
> 
> lock directory = /var/spool/locks/samba
> share modes = yes
> oplocks = true
> locking = yes

Just as an experiment, comment out the last three
lines and put in this:
  fake oplocks = yes

Eddie.


> 
> I did that but the prob was not solved.
> 
> Has anybody any idea to get rid of that. I mean I'm not the only
> person in the world trying to open files by double clicking them whit
> samba. Maybe someone had that prob and solved it.
> 
> thanks in advance.
> 
> Manfred