[Samba] Re: Security=user half as fast as share. Why?

[Merle Reine]

Try this, it sped mine up quite a bit:

in globals,

socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 
IPTOS_LOWDELAY IPTOS_THROUGHPUT


Do a man on smb.conf for an explanation of what they do to speed things up.

samba1.20.cdunham at spamgourmet.com wrote:

>>
>> samba1.20.cdunham at spamgourmet.com escreveu:
>> > I'm running Suse 9.2 (kernel 2.6.8-24) with Samba 3.0.20b
>> >
>> > When I use security=user, my read/write performance is less than half
>> > the peformance with security=share.  Why?  There are no other changes,
>> > but performance is never better than half the speed.  This happens 
>> with
>> > WinXP, Win2K and Win98 clients, so I don't think the client
>> > configuration is the problem.  Network is gigabit, with Intel Pro/1000
>> > adapters.
>>
>>  Did you setup the socket options?
>>
>>  security = share has five "extra" steps to check the user,
>> perhaps it could be a delay from the backend (LDAP or winbind).
>>
>>  Kind regards,
>>
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by socket options.  My smb.conf is shown 
> below. I'm not using LDAP or winbind. No domain, just a workgroup.
>
> My smb.conf file is:
>
> [global]
> workgroup = MYWORKGROUP
> netbios name = SERVER1
> wins support = yes
> domain master = yes
> local master = yes
> preferred master = yes
> os level = 65
> map to guest = Bad User
>
> restrict anonymous = no
> server signing = Auto
>
> [test]
> comment = test
> path = /home/users
> read only = no
> guest ok = yes
>
>