[Samba] Windows 2k/XP and roaming profiles

[Kaleb Pederson]

Have you set some of the socket options?

e.g.
socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192
SO_SNDBUF=8192

See the smb.conf manpage for socket options.

My 1.5 gb profile takes less than 4 minutes on w2k.  My minimized 2 meg
profiles take about 5 seconds (other than time for startup programs
etc.)

--Kaleb

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]
On Behalf Of Janet Dickson
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:24 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] Windows 2k/XP and roaming profiles

Hi

I'm finding it takes ages to download a roaming profile from the server
when I log into Win2k or XP.  A 4Mb profiles typically takes about 2
minutes (and 2 minutes to write back when I log out).

I did a test and copied the profile directory from the server to my PC.
Running under Win98 takes 1-2 minutes. Under 2K/XP it takes nearly 5
minutes. However, a single file of 4Mb only takes about 10 seconds. I
assume this is because my profile consists of a large number of small
files (about 500 mainly lnk files) and actually takes up over 20Mb of
space on the PC when copied.

I've just upgraded to Samba 2.2.5 (from 2.2.1) but it hasnt made any
difference. The samba server is running Solaris 8.

Are there any tweaks I should be making to speed up the download ?
Otherwise I shall just abandon roaming profiles.

	Janet

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