[Samba] Vista Read/Write performance

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 15:35:48 GMT 2008


On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Matt Harris <raven at uberduck.net> wrote:
> Hello.
>
>  I am setting up a smb server running debian etch for a small office.
>  Due to circumstances outside my control, most of the client machines are
>  running Windows Vista Ultimate.  The shares are all set up properly,
>  security is set, and we're good to go.
>
>  Except that the throughput from any of the Vista machines to the server
>  is at best slow and at worst abysmal.  After tweaking the socket
>  options, turning off various services in windows (Remote Differential
>  Compression), and even installing the freshly-released SP1, the best
>  I've been able to get is 12.5 MB/s reading from the samba server.  SCP
>  gets 35-40 MB/s, and Vista to Vista transfers using SMB get 35-40 MB/s.
>
>  I'm in the unfortunate position of having to recommend to my boss that
>  we put the data on another Vista machine and use that as a makeshift
>  file server until this problem can be ironed out.  I very much do not
>  want to tell him that.  Any help anyone can offer would be greatly
>  appreciated.
>
>  Thank you,
>
>  Matt Harris
>

Since this email is old (I got it in my mailbox today though) you
probably figured it out but I will ask anyways.

Are you using samba-3.0.28a?

John


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