Hey samba friends, We are getting really bad performance from the samba server. Profiles are taking forever to d/l. This is in an isolated environment: one client, one server, attached to a 100 Mbps switch. Ping is min/avg/max/mdev 0.174/0.190/0.309/0.036 ms.
On irc.freenode.org #samba we have been met with some derision for using ping to test throughput. We also tested with rsync and the isolated test environment seemed speedy, but the IRC guys won't talk to us unless we test throughput with http or ftp. The problem with that is, the sambatest server is offline and for performance reasons we are < psyched about installing apache2 on the box. Even trying to install proftp on the samba server is problematic because we have to set up a knoppix livecd next to the isolated network, tunnel through the mailserver and firewall, and get debs (mailserver and sambatest both Ubuntu Breezy) which we d/l to knoppix, then unplug knoppix from the network and plug into the test switch, and then we still have to use dpkg instead of apt-get to install proftpd, resolve conflicts, satisfy dependencies, etc. Hopefully you can see why testing the throughput of the switch is a PITA. Even if we turn off samba to join the test server to the LAN (we don't want the PDCs to get into a battle!) we still have to set up apt to use our proxy server. We can't even use apt-get install apt-proxy! Meanwhile, we think the bandwidth benchmark is irrelevant to the problem we're having -- IRC opinions notwithstanding. It just seems like a lot of trouble to test throughput on a switch we know is working fine at 100Mbps. There must be another problem! Default profile < 5 MB. We have domain logons. Also, I don't remember how to make a default profile on a windows box and move it to the samba PDC. I want to use the old profile from: /etc/samba/netlogon/default user but change paths, proxy settings, etc. -- /home/modus/.signature Thu Sep 22 02:41:56 EDT 2005 The Moon is Waning Gibbous (79% of Full) In the immortal words of Modus Operandi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In the immortal words of Modus Operandi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > we have been trying to move our samba box to a faster server, with better > > NICs, faster processor and more memory. > > > > both the old and new server are using samba 3.0.14A > > both on debian based distributions (old was sarge, new is breezy) > > > > here are the steps we followed: > > install samba from the apt archives. > > confirmed that they were the same version. > > copied smb.conf from old server to new server. > > changed domain name, or workgroup = domain2 > > as well as netbios name > > <snip!> > > Well, that was the problem. I set the workgroup and > the netbios to the same name, which was causing the > "duplicate name" error. > > Not sure why the old install worked just fine with > netbios and workgroup set to the same thing. > > Anyway, we can now log on to the domain without the > error. There are still problems, though ... the > authentication procedure is incredibly slow -- and the > reason we got a new server was so it would be faster. > > Tomorrow, I will make sure all the users are created > with the same uid on the new server, and then convert > our old smbpasswd to tdb format. > > -- > /home/modus/.signature > Mon Sep 19 18:19:45 EDT 2005 > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (95% of Full) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
