[Samba] How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows Share under W2K3

[Kostic, Jacques]

The funny thing when I setup my Connections to Windows Shares, I am configuring 
Samba with the famous  smb.conf file.
So I gess we have Samba behind ;-)

Jko

-Original Message-
From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:volker.lende...@sernet.de] 
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:52 AM
To: Kostic, Jacques
Cc: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows 
Share under W2K3

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 09:31:17AM +0100, Kostic, Jacques wrote:
> iMac is the client.

iMac is the client, Windows is the server? If I got you right, there is not 
much any Samba forum can do here. Please contact your friendly Apple or 
Microsoft support :-)

Volker

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[Samba] How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows Share under W2K3

[Kostic, Jacques]

Ok, now I get you point.

I will then contact them to see what they will answer.
Many thanks for your patience ;-)

Jko

-Original Message-
From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:volker.lende...@sernet.de] 
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 2:58 PM
To: Kostic, Jacques
Cc: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows Share 
under W2K3

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 02:34:51PM +0100, Kostic, Jacques wrote:
> We I connect to //w2k3/share I am effectively using a GUI tool to do that.
> 
> The tool show me my server like this:
> 
>   smb://licorne
> 
> If I the double click on this, then I am getting all my shares and I 
> can mount one.
> 
> So Yes Samba is used and at the end the smbclient //w2k3/share  is 
> raised to map my drive.

Ok, I think we have a misunderstanding here.

smb://licorne

does not necessarily mean Samba is used. It does mean that the SMB (Server 
Message Block) protocol is used.

OS/X has its own implementation of the SMB protocol that has nothing to do with 
Samba. If a Windows share/volume shows up on your Desktop as an icon which you 
can open by clicking on it and you can directly open, say, pdf files from that, 
then no, Samba is not involved. In that case it is purely Apple code that the 
Samba community has no stakes in.

Volker

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[Samba] How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows Share under W2K3

[Kostic, Jacques]

We I connect to //w2k3/share I am effectively using a GUI tool to do that.

The tool show me my server like this:

smb://licorne

If I the double click on this, then I am getting all my shares and I can mount 
one.

So Yes Samba is used and at the end the smbclient //w2k3/share  is raised to 
map my drive.

I may forums I saw some performance issues with Samba but no relevant answers 
on how to optimize.

Many thanks
jko

-Original Message-
From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:volker.lende...@sernet.de] 
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 2:27 PM
To: Kostic, Jacques
Cc: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows Share 
under W2K3

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 02:03:16PM +0100, Kostic, Jacques wrote:
> Pleeease be nice ;-)

Well, I try to be :-)

> A normal network between one XP  and one W2K3 server with a giga bit 
> switch in the midle produce more that 400Mb/ sec transfer rate.
> 
> If I just replace the XP by my iMac with Samba connecting to the W2K3 
> I am getting less than 15Mb/Sec...
> 
> I mean if I could have an explanation or help to optimize samba...

Ok, which piece of Samba are you actually using? What do you
*exactly* mean by "iMac with samba connecting to W2K3"? If this means you issue 

smbclient //w2k3/share

on the command line, then yes, this is our business. If you instead use the 
native iMac tools and mount //w2k3/share into your local system. If the latter 
is the case (you are using the native iMac GUI to connect to the server), then 
no, no Samba piece is involved. In that case, you need to contact your Apple 
support.

Please clarify what you are doing and apologies if I was not precise enough.

Volker

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[Samba] How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows Share under W2K3

[Kostic, Jacques]

Hi Volker,

Pleeease be nice ;-)

A normal network between one XP  and one W2K3 server with a giga bit switch in 
the midle produce more that 400Mb/ sec transfer rate.

If I just replace the XP by my iMac with Samba connecting to the W2K3 I am 
getting less than 15Mb/Sec...

I mean if I could have an explanation or help to optimize samba...

Many thanks
jko

-Original Message-
From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:volker.lende...@sernet.de] 
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:52 AM
To: Kostic, Jacques
Cc: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows 
Share under W2K3

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 09:31:17AM +0100, Kostic, Jacques wrote:
> iMac is the client.

iMac is the client, Windows is the server? If I got you right, there is not 
much any Samba forum can do here. Please contact your friendly Apple or 
Microsoft support :-)

Volker

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[Samba] How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows Share under W2K3

[Kostic, Jacques]

Hi Volker,

iMac is the client.

Jko

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[Samba] How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows Share under W2K3

[Kostic, Jacques]

Hi,

I have Setup connection from my brand new iMac to my windows Server 2003.

I am using gigabit line and I am getting only 15 Mbites / sec speed.

Any way to get much better?

Many thanks for your help.

Jko

Jacques KOSTIC
Philip Morris International
Senior IS Analyst Finance Systems
Av Rhodanie 50 1001 Lausanne
E-mail: jacques.kos...@pmintl.com
Phone: +41 (58) 242 7727
Fax: +41 (58) 242 0101


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