[Samba] opening excel sheets slow, copying fast ?

Joel Hammer Joel at HammersHome.com
Thu Nov 21 00:26:00 GMT 2002


Just guessing, but think about security. Have you looked at tcpdump to see
where your client and server machines are looking during the delay? Maybe
they are waiting trying to authenticate the request.
Joel

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:14:31PM +0100, Holger Krull wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> what is Excel doing while opening a file?
> 
> There is no delay when opening the same file localy or on a windows 2000 
> server. But on the samba server it needs 10 seconds. But copying the 
> same file (32K) has no delay at all. (With larger files things get 
> worse, while coping a 60 MB file takes 8 seconds)
> Other mails mentioned recommended to disable oplocks, but this didn't 
> change anything.
> 
> Any hint available where to look at?
> 
> Bye
>   Holger
> 
> 
> My smb.conf looks like
> 
> [global]
> 	workgroup = HERMOS
> 	netbios name = HERMOS2
>          server string = Hermos
>          comment = Domain
> 	encrypt passwords = Yes
> 	map to guest = Never
> 	socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY
> # SO_SNDBUF=8760 SO_RCVBUF=8760
> 	character set = ISO8859-15
> 	add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -c > 'Machine Account' -s /bin/false -M %u
> 	logon script = %G.cmd
> 	logon path = \\hermos2\profiles\%u
> 	logon drive = H:
> 	logon home = \\hermos2\homes\%u
> 	domain logons = Yes
> 	os level = 66
> 	preferred master = True
> 	domain master = True
> 	wins support = Yes
>          time server = yes
> 	printing = cups
>          printcap name = cups
>          printer admin = @users, root, netzadmin
> 	interfaces = eth0:0
> 	bind interfaces only = yes
>          domain admin group = netzadmin
> #        oplocks=no
> #        kernel oplocks = no
> #        level2 oplocks = no
> #        max xmit=32767
> 
> [Programme]
> 	path = /samba/programme
> 	delete readonly = yes
> 	create mode = 0770
> 	writeable = yes
> 	directory mode = 0770
>          hide unreadable = yes
> 
> 
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