Speeding up file tranfer

[Gustavo Courault]

Hi Ivan:
I think if you perform a "cp" command in the linux server, always is more 
quick if you perform a "DOS copy" across the net.
Because across the net you transfer the data to the client PC and then again, 
from the client to the server. 

Perhaps if you have a LAN at very powerfull you can compare the two speeds.

Regards


El Mié 16 Ene 2002 15:05, escribió:
> 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