You have asked this question several times and received replies every time.
1) The performance of MS Access over the network is poor under any server, windows servers may buy you more time, but not a lot. The performance of MS Access on the network is inversely proportional to a combination of number of clients, latency of the network, size of database, and write pattern of your application. As ANY of these values increase your performance will go into the toilet no matter what server you use. 2) You continue to tweak setting that you should not ( ie write cache size ) and have been told by Jeremy that it is not a good idea, yet those values continue to part of your config. When Jeremy states explicitly that the setting will do no good, I would listen. I really don't want to discourage you from using SAMBA, but you must help yourself and have realistic expectations as to the scalability of your application. Personally I would remove all tuning from the smb.conf and then do testing by adding and removing various combinations of tunings until you find something that is both acceptable in terms of performance and stability. You should also investigate any tuning of the underlying system that may also help I/O throughput on your system as a whole, you might be surprised how much that can help. The best solution would be to abandon your MS Access database and develop ( with your shiny new Debian box ) a LAMP style solution that will provide you with much more scalability and portability, but I realize that is probably not going to happen. Cheers, Eric On 5/9/06, daniel arjona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a file server running with Samba over Debian Sarge 3.1 R1. This File server store MDB and XLS files. Could anybody give me an optimal setup for my samba server (smb.conf). Actually, the performance is very poor. I really apreciate your help as soon as possible. My supervisor wants to change the operating system (Linux) for Windows 2003 Server. I do not want to do that. I love Linux. Thanks, [global] workgroup = REVLON netbios name = FILE_SRV security = user encrypt passwords = yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u unix password sync = yes socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY hosts deny = ALL hosts allow = 172.18.40. 127.0.0.1 debug level = 1 create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0775 read raw = no write cache size = 262144 # oplocks = no veto oplock files = /*.mdb/*.MDB/ myshare] comment = Arjona's Files path = /home/darjona valid users = darjona pc08 pc18 public = no writable = yes printable = no browseable = yes Daniel Arjona Net Admin GENCO Distribution Systems http://www.genco.com/ 8740 Robert Fulton Dr Columbia, MD 21046 Ph: 410-872-0875 X12 Fax: 410-872-0877 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
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