Samba performance Linux

jess1975 · 03-21-2005, 03:22 AM

I have two problems using Samba from linux to linux.

1. Performance is slow, not even 5 MB/s. The funny thing is, when I copy another file simultaneously the performance goes up. Therefore I think somehow there is a max transfer rate per process. How can I change this?

2. Second problem is very peculiar. When I've made a directory on the server itself (not using Samba), I can't delete this directory using Samba. I have to log on to the server and delete the directory on the box itself. If it's deleted, I can't create a directory using Samba which has the same name???? using Samba as the same user.

With Windows XP I don't have both of these problems. Although I can't delete the directories created in XP with Samba, when using Samba in Linux.

Networking itself seems to be fine.

In Linux, I have the shares automounted in the fstab, using gid samba which I created myself containing root and the user.

Does anyone have a clou?

acid_kewpie · 03-21-2005, 08:16 AM

the main samba optimizations are the options

Code:

socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_ SNDBUF=8192

to get a larger throughput. Personally i'd very strongly recommend you don't use samba between two unix platforms.. it's just a total waste of time, and you'd get much better results using the vastly simpler NFS.

jess1975 · 03-22-2005, 04:20 AM

Have you got an how-to on NFS shares. I don'T want anonymous connections, only preferred users should be able to connect.

I've set up the nfs shares as default in suse 9.2. It's lightning fast. But everyone can access it.

acid_kewpie · 03-22-2005, 06:16 AM

just check "man exports" for details. you can restrict easily by ip range, domain, users, groups...