On Wednesday 25 Dec 2002 7:53 pm, Barry Michels wrote: > Any reason why transferring files from a samba share to a windows folder > would be faster when working from windows? I was at the console in > Mandrake and used mv to move files from a directory to a mounted windows > share and got about 7.2MB/s. Then, I stopped the transfer and went to the > windows machine. Moving from Network Neighborhood to the local windows > folder, I got 12MB/s (with peaks at 16MB/s). Both processes were moving > the same data to the same folders. Both measurements were done from Task > Manager in Windows XP and compared using net-monitor in Mandrake. > BTW, I've got gigabit ethernet on these 2 machines and ATA 100 IDE drives. > > Barry
There are any number of parameters which could affect throughput. One worth checking is that you have this line in your /etc/samba/smb.conf files of both your server and your client socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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