[Samba] Office (2003) saving excel sheet takes VERY long..

[John Mazza]

Max,

I'd try working on the TCP Socket options.  Adjust the 
SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF values up in steps of 1024, restarting
Samba after each change.  You can then time the transfers.  

That should help!



On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:22:58 +0200, Max Riedel wrote:

>Hi!
>Maybe you can help me, would be very nice!
>I'm new to the list and I'm very glad that it exists...
>A week ago we migrated to samba and since then it's taking very long to 
>save a 1,8MB excel document. On fast ethernet it takes us about 10 
>seconds, on wireless lan it can take up to a minute, although 
>transferring the same amount of data from the very same machine, that is 
>connected via 802.11g, to samba (by copying a file) takes only about 
>3-4seconds over the wireless connection.
>We use Excel in Office 2003 with SP1. Machine is a WinXP Pro SP2.
>It looks as if it was Excel's fault, but it also seems to be much slower 
>now since the files are stored on the samba server.
>
>Is there any way to enhance Excel's writing or maybe the caching on the 
>server?Most of the files are smaller than 300kbytes, but this particular 
>one is ~1,8MB and used VERY frequently.
>
>Samba version is 3.0.20
>
>System's running on an Athlon XP 2.400+, 512MB ram, Redhat Enterprise WS 4
>
>The smb.conf looks like:
>
>[global]
>
>   netbios name = smb
>
>   workgroup = WORKGROUP
>
>   server string = Samba Server
>
>    hosts allow = 192.168.0.
>
>  guest account = guest
>
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>
>   max log size = 500
>
>   security = user
>
>    ;oplocks = no
>    ;level2 oplocks = no
>
>  encrypt passwords = yes
>  smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>
>   socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 IPTOS_LOWDELAY
>
>    ;getwd cache = yes
>    ;dead time = 15
>    ;read raw = yes
>    ;write raw = yes
>
>    interfaces = 192.168.0.102/24
>
>    remote announce = 192.168.0.255
>
>    local master = yes
>
>   os level = 200
>
>   preferred master = yes
>
> name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
>
>   wins support = yes
>
>   dns proxy = no
>
>  preserve case = no
>  default case = lower
>  case sensitive = no
>
>
>   idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
>   idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
>   template shell = /bin/false
>   winbind use default domain = no
>
>[shared]
>   comment = Temporary file space
>   path = /smb/shared
>   public = yes
>   writeable = yes
>   create mask = 0640
>   directory mask = 750
>   force create mode = 020
>   force directory mode = 020
>   guest ok = yes
>   force group = users
>
>[daten]
>   comment = Root
>   path = /smb/daten
>   valid users = @verwaltung
>   write list = @verwaltung
>   force group = users
>   create mask = 0640
>   directory mask = 750
>   force create mode = 020
>   force directory mode = 020
>
>[folder1]
>   path = /smb/daten/folder1
>   valid users = @users
>   writeable = yes
>   public = yes
>   force group = users
>   create mask = 0640
>   directory mask = 750
>   force create mode = 020
>   force directory mode = 020
>
>[folder2]
>   path = /smb/daten/folder2/
>   valid users = @users
>   writeable = no
>   write list = silvia, @verwaltung
>   force group = users
>   create mask = 0640
>   directory mask = 750
>   force create mode = 020
>   force directory mode = 020
>
>
>
>Thanks alot for any help!
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