Re: [Samba] Speed of Samba through VPN

2004-12-14 Thread James Cooke
Adam and Mrinal - thanks for the info. Adam wrote> | Are you talking about raw packet count, packet size, or just content? | If either of the former, yes, the count and total transaction size | will be larger. Your VPN connection is probably using a much smaller | MRU/MTU than your LAN, resulting

[Samba] Speed of Samba through VPN

2004-12-13 Thread James Cooke
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 min