[Samba] Very Slow!

[Ryan Bair]

The newest Samba for RHEL 5.2 should be 3.0.28. Is there a reason this box
isn't up to date?

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Brian D. McGrew <brian at visionpro.com>wrote:

> So now after I've been playing around with the configuration and such, it
> seems that the SMB server has become less usable.  Now, all the shares are
> visible but as soon as I try to access anything or copy anything I get "The
> network path is not valid".  Again, trying from XP, 2003 and 2008.
>
> I've put the original smb.conf and krb5.conf back in place and rebooted.
>  Still no difference!!!
>
> Now, I really need help because it's unusable and there's about 4TB of data
> out there that people need!!!
>
> Thanks,
>
> -brian
>
>
> > I am going to go with a bad samba build.
> >
> > Won't be the first time.
> >
> > Try different rpm versions from Red.
> > Update or Backrev
> >
> > If that still doesn't work, try putting both the client and the server
> > on a unmanaged gigabit switch and try the test again.
> >
> > -gc
> >
> >
> > Brian McGrew wrote:
> >> System info:
> >>     Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)
> >>     Kerlen 2.6.18-8.el5 SMP x86_64
> >>     Samba version 3.0.23c-2
> >>     Eth0 && Eht1 bonded to bond0, 2Gbps.
> >>
> >>     /etc/samba/smb.conf attached below...
> >>
> >> I¹m seeing very slow transfers from Samba....  I¹m not sure how else to
> >> describe it.  If I try and copy a 4GB DVD image from the server to any
> >> Windows box (XP, 2003, 2008, MacOS) it estimates more than 4 hours to
> >> copy.
> >> However, if I FTP to the server from any given client I can move the
> >> whole
> >> file in less than 2 minutes...
> >>
> >> I¹m not a Samba expert, so anything is helpful at this point!!!
> >>
> >> -brian
> >>
> >> [global]
> >>     netbios name = mvppvt125
> >>     realm = MACHINEVISIONPRODUCTS.COM
> >>     security = ads
> >>     preferred master = no
> >>     encrypt passwords = yes
> >>     wins server = 10.0.0.119
> >>     workgroup = MVP
> >>     password server = *
> >>     server string = Dell PowerVault Server
> >>     log level = 3
> >>     log file = /var/log/samba/smbd.log
> >>     max log size = 50
> >>     winbind use default domain = yes
> >>     winbind nested groups = yes
> >>     winbind separator = +
> >>     client ntlmv2 auth = yes
> >>     socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> >>     username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
> >>     template shell = /bin/bash
> >>
> >> [filevault]
> >>     comment = File Vault
> >>     path = /filevault
> >>     browseable = yes
> >>     writable = yes
> >>     create mode = 0777
> >>     force create mode = 0777
> >>     force directory mode = 0777
> >>
> >> [data]
> >>     comment = MVP Data
> >>     path = /data
> >>     browseable = yes
> >>     writable = yes
> >>     create mode = 0777
> >>     force create mode = 0777
> >>     force directory mode = 0777
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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