Hi there,
Recently, I successfully set up an RHEL3 server running Samba over a PPTP VPN connection, however, the client is complaining about access speeds. The problem is not so much opening the files, but browsing the folders - however, this only appears to be slow from the client end, not mine.
Today, we ran a quick test which compared the volume of traffic sent over the VPN connections to the central server from a client machine and from my test machine. We found that the volume of data being sent and received during the process of opening a shared folder, seeing the contents appear, then opening a subfolder and seeing its contents appear was approximately three times as much on the client machine as my test one. Does anyone know why it should be the case that smb is sending and receiving three times as much data to one machine using a share as another?
The test machines are both running Win2K SP4, have exactly the same VPN connection settings and offline file settings (turned off for this resource). The machines are at different locations using different connection technologies to reach the internet - could this be effecting the volume of traffic sent and received by smb?
I have followed some of the discussion regarding the use of Samba through a VPN connection and from the posts earlier this month, I can see that Apache and Davenport look like better long term solutions, however, we won't be able to implement these until the new year - so help on a short term solution would be really appreciated.
All the best,
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