Re: [Samba] Profile loading/saving on gigabit network only runs at fast ethernet speeds! Help!

2008-10-15 Thread Jonathan Bougher
Ok that idea sounds golden, I will try it out the first chance I get. This is a big improvement over the way it is now, it's a little harder on users, but not much. I thank you very much! However, just because I am a curious kind of guy, I do not yet know *why*such a slowdown occurs when saving a

Re: [Samba] Profile loading/saving on gigabit network only runs at fast ethernet speeds! Help!

2008-10-14 Thread Adam Williams
page 211 of samba 3 by example.pdf has instructions on how to redirect folders using registry changes. you can easily redirect my documents by right clicking on it and changing the target. i don't save files to my desktop because that just results in a cluttered desktop and large roaming prof

Re: [Samba] Profile loading/saving on gigabit network only runs at fast ethernet speeds! Help!

2008-10-14 Thread Jonathan Bougher
The VM is being saved to the Desktop, within a folder (or multiple folders if the user puts it there) If I redirect My Docs, and the VM files are there - Then won't VMware run much more slowly trying to access this stuff across the network when the user wants to run the VM? Profile loading/saving

Re: [Samba] Profile loading/saving on gigabit network only runs at fast ethernet speeds! Help!

2008-10-14 Thread Adam Williams
where are you saving the VM at? My documents? you can redirect my documents as well as most folders under c:\documents and settings\user Jonathan Bougher wrote: Hello everyone, I could really use some help trying to diagnose a tricky issue within the domain I have set up. I am using samba-3

Re: [Samba] Profile loading/saving on gigabit network only runs at fast ethernet speeds! Help!

2008-10-14 Thread Jonathan Bougher
Ouch - insane is not what I was going for, hahaha jk. I just hoped that the gigabit speeds would better support a larger profile. If I was getting the full DL/UL speeds for profile transfer it would not be such an issue because it would only take about a minute and a half. But I see your wisdom C

Re: [Samba] Profile loading/saving on gigabit network only runs at fast ethernet speeds! Help!

2008-10-14 Thread Jonathan Bougher
Ouch - insane is not what I was going for, hahaha jk. I just hoped that the gigabit speeds would better support a larger profile. If I was getting the full DL/UL speeds for profile transfer it would not be such an issue because it would only take about a minute and a half. But I see your wisdom C

Re: [Samba] Profile loading/saving on gigabit network only runs at fast ethernet speeds! Help!

2008-10-14 Thread Mike Gallamore
I think your right there. What type of OS/VM software are you using? Could you have the OS + common app bits in a virtual disk that is on the local machine and the user profile, user specific applications all in a seperate virtual disk that they get from the samba server? That would probabl

Re: [Samba] Profile loading/saving on gigabit network only runs at fast ethernet speeds! Help!

2008-10-14 Thread Charles Marcus
On 10/14/2008, Jonathan Bougher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Profile Logoff: 50,000 kb/s (a ~3GB profile takes roughly 10 min to load) Using roaming profiles for profiles so large is - well - insane. You won't get much better performance... I'd look for another way (than using huge roaming profi

[Samba] Profile loading/saving on gigabit network only runs at fast ethernet speeds! Help!

2008-10-14 Thread Jonathan Bougher
Hello everyone, I could really use some help trying to diagnose a tricky issue within the domain I have set up. I am using samba-3.0.28-1.el5_2.1 and openldap-2.3.27-8.el5_2.4 on a server running Centos 5.1. I have everything working properly within the domain, users can log in, netlogon scripts