smbclient much faster then smbmount/ nautilus/ dolphin ???
 

Hi,
I have a sambaserver running opensuse 11.2 and a gigabit network. Downloading files with smbclient is twice as fast than using nautilus or dolphin smbmount (smbfs) (66MByte/s against 30MB/s). I tried with a ubuntu 9.10 and opensuse 11.2 client. Same with upload (30 against 20). When I use instead an Ubuntu server - the same :-(
Generally performance with Samba is unsatisfying. With FTP I get + 100MB/s in both directions. I do not use Jumbo packets (switch can not handle those).

Any idea?
thanx

Think about how smbclient works, and how nautilus and other file managers work. smbclient mounts an SMB share somewhere in the local directory. Nautilus, et. al., use a virtual filesystem (GVFS and FUSE), and 'mount' the samba share there. This is the main difficulty, and does pose some slowdown issues. For most everyday apps, this is not a problem, but you are in a vey particular position. I would suggest using smbclient in a script to do the heavy lifting, and nautilus only for browsing.

Take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS

Hi,
thanks for that answer, so I already got a hint.
when I use smbclient it opens a ftp like console and does not mount - I would be happy if it would mount. When I use smbmount the performance drops.