[Samba] Samba shares slow

[Peter Lappo]

I've played around (far too long) and have given up with samba for now - 
I've tried all the optimisation tricks, restarted smb and nmb several 
times, disabled the firewall and SELinux on the server, disabled 
anti-virus software on the PC but to no avail - browsing is still very 
slow and copy large files from the samba server is very slow.

For now I'm going to use pure-ftpd and netdrive 
http://www.loyola.edu/5555/netdrive/installingnetdrive/ a program that 
makes a window drive out of ftp. While its not very secure it seems to 
be very fast in both directions.


Ned2 wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running Samba version 3.0.22 for a small office where the clients are
> windows 2k and XP machines. basically everything works OK and the only
> problem I am facing now is that it takes ages before windows opens samba
> shares. I tried turning off web client in win xp which helped a little but
> it is still too slow. It takes almost 7 minutes to copy a 2G file to a
> windows machine from linux server. Switch and cables seem to be Gbyte and
> cat 5e and ping takes less than a ms. Any help is appreciated.
>
> Ned
>
>
>
> Here the smb.conf
>
> [global]
> 	workgroup = MyNTWRK
> 	printing = cups
> 	printcap name = cups
> 	load printers = yes
> 	cups options = raw
> 	map to guest = Bad user
> 	log file = /etc/samba/log/%U.log
> 	include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
> 	add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd  -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s
> /bin/false %m$
> 	logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u
> 	logon home = \\%L\userhomes\%U
> 	logon drive = U:
> 	logon script = %U.bat
> 	domain logons = Yes
> 	domain master = Yes
> 	smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
> 	security = user
> 	wins support = Yes
> 	passdb backend = smbpasswd
> 	netbios name = MYNTWRK-server
> 	local master = Yes
> 	os level = 65
> 	preferred master = Yes
>
>
> [userhomes]
> 	comment = Home Directories
> 	path = /userhomes
> 	browseable = no
> 	read only = no
> 	inherit acls = yes
>
> [profiles]
> 	comment = Network Profiles Service
> 	path = /profiles
> 	read only = no
> 	store dos attributes = yes
> 	browseable = no
> 	create mask = 0600
> 	directory mask = 0700
>
> [public]
> 	comment = All users
> 	path = /public
> 	read only = no
> 	browseable = yes
>
> [netlogon]
> 	comment = net logon
> 	path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
> 	browseable = no
> 	public = no
> 	write list = root
> 	browseable = no
> 	guest ok = yes
>
> [programs]
> 	comment = programs 
> 	path = /programs
> 	read only = no
> 	browseable = yes
> 	directory mask = 770
> 	create mask = 770
>
> [...other shares]
> ...
>