Hi,

sorry if this is a dumb question. But I have a samba server and performence is ok, but I would like to increase it(like everyone else I guess...).

I think the biggest thing slowing me down is the network(as the server is a p4, with 1 gig ram).

I am not sure if this will work, but if i put multiple network cards into the box and connect it to a switch, could I somehow get load balancing to inprove performence? or something like that(maybe assign a different hostname for each interface and have a set of users connect to the same server using different nics?

We have about 20 users using this server and most cpu usage I have ever seen with it is 5%. I consider this a waste, Do you know anything I can do to get around this bottle neck for this file server?