This is from 1998: "We've had serious performance problems loading AutoCAD R14 .dwg files from a VAResearch VArServer 3000 (dual 400MHz PII, Red Hat 5.0, SAMBA 1.9.17p4, 256MB RAM, 36GB RAID5). The problem is that on first access, trying to read the .dwg file is very, very slow"
This is from 1999: "A friend of mine just had a big problem with Samba, which we eventually solved. The problem was that NT clients did well on a copy in a command prompt, but were terribly slow when opening the same file in Autocad. (Compared to serving the file from an NT server). The solution was well hidden in dejanews and the Samba documentation somewhere; we had to set socket options = SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096" I have found a couple of other people complaining about performance with AutoCad. I have tried the above fix, and I did not notice any difference whatsoever. I have also tried generic speed fixes like this: http://www.dd.iij4u.or.jp/~okuyamak/Documents/tuning.english.html to no avail. This is very important to our company, and I may be forced to use a windows server if I cannot resolve this problem. We had our files on a Windows XP machine (with worse hardware than we are using now) and it was running quite a bit faster than the Samba server we have now. The speed problem, however, only seems to be with AutoCad. Here are some smb.conf's I have tried: (I have tried SO_SNDBUF=8192, and 4096) [global] workgroup = TRISTATE security = USER netbios name = SERVER encrypt passwords = Yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd oplocks = true ole locking compatibility = no read prediction = true strict sync = yes socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=2920 hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 10.0.0.0/24 hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0 [Drawings] path = /fileservice/drawings writeable = Yes browseable = Yes read only = No guest ok = No comment = autocad related files and misc files valid users = drafter [Topowork] path = /fileservice/topowork writeable = Yes browseable = Yes read only = No guest ok = No comment = adobe related files valid users = drafter AND: [global] workgroup = TRISTATE security = USER netbios name = SERVER encrypt passwords = Yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd [Drawings] path = /fileservice/drawings writeable = Yes browseable = Yes read only = No guest ok = No comment = autocad related files and misc files valid users = drafter [Topowork] path = /fileservice/topowork writeable = Yes browseable = Yes read only = No guest ok = No comment = adobe related files valid users = drafter Any help would be greatly appreciated. Brian Merrell -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba