Ville Herva wrote:
>
> Have you idea whether that really affects the performance?
> I've seen SMB (NetBios on TCP) have problems on
> non-standard environments. For example, when I run smb
> over ssh port forwarding, the perfomance drops to one
> fourth of the bandwidth, while other protocols (ftp,
> http) have no problem. Also SMB does not exactly seem to
> be the fastest protocol on Earth on 100Mbit ethernet
> media either ... ;).
>
> Perhaps dropping the NetBios on TCP legacy could
> remedy some of this?
I have never seen any benchmarks on performance for this.
> > btw...you loose the virtual server functionality in
> > Samba with netbios-less CIFS as there is no called name
> > in the TCP session request. :-(
>
> Perhaps that's worth it if we get somewhat better
> performance and can forget about all this
> wins/broadcast/nameresolution stuff.
Few people I know of can ditch netbios anytime soon
as they all still have some non-win2k clients/servers
around.
Cheers, jerry
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