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

[Max Riedel]

Thanks alot this solved my Problem!
Now time's about 10seconds on wifi.. that's ok!

Thanks!

John Mazza wrote:

> 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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