[Samba] very slow profile loading and strange log message

2011-08-17 Thread Andreas Moroder
Hello, since a few days the computer in a branch office the computer take five and more minutes to load the user profile. In the user's samba log I found many lines of the type: [2011/08/17 12:36:09, 0] smbd/service.c:1188(make_connection) tonon-pc11 (:::192.168.10.11) couldn't find s

Re: [Samba] Very slow samba performance on Centos 6

2011-08-05 Thread vg_ us
- From: "Robert Adkins II" Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 10:10 AM To: "'vg_ us'" ; Cc: Subject: RE: [Samba] Very slow samba performance on Centos 6 Wouldn't it be better to rerun these tests, not from the Ramd

Re: [Samba] Very slow samba performance on Centos 6

2011-08-05 Thread Robert Adkins II
f. -- Regards, Robert Adkins II > -Original Message- > From: samba-boun...@lists.samba.org > [mailto:samba-boun...@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of vg_ us > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 2:12 PM > To: volker.lende...@sernet.de > Cc: samba@lists.samba.org >

Re: [Samba] Very slow samba performance on Centos 6

2011-08-05 Thread Volker Lendecke
Hi, Jeff! Something for you to reply to ... :-) Volker On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 02:11:35PM -0400, vg_ us wrote: > -- > From: "Volker Lendecke" > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:01 AM > To: "vg_ us" > Cc: >

Re: [Samba] Very slow samba performance on Centos 6

2011-08-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/4/2011 1:11 PM, vg_ us wrote: > cifsfs mounts are really slow, so what happens when linux, windows and > mac clients map/mount the share? Are they gonna be this slow? Any way to > speed it up? Unfortunately I don't have an answer to the slow mounts issue. However, you're showing a peak perf

Re: [Samba] Very slow samba performance on Centos 6

2011-08-04 Thread vg_ us
-- From: "Volker Lendecke" Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:01 AM To: "vg_ us" Cc: Subject: Re: [Samba] Very slow samba performance on Centos 6 On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 10:49:50AM -0400, vg_ us wrote: I have 2 identical De

Re: [Samba] Very slow samba performance on Centos 6

2011-08-04 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 10:49:50AM -0400, vg_ us wrote: > I have 2 identical Dell r510 servers with 10gig card, running centos > 6 with samba-3.5.4-68.el6_0.2.x86_64. > I setup 16G ramdisk samba share on both and ran cp from local > ramdisk to samba ramdisk mount. > If I cp 12 1-gig files, I get co

[Samba] Very slow samba performance on Centos 6

2011-08-04 Thread vg_ us
Hello all, I have 2 identical Dell r510 servers with 10gig card, running centos 6 with samba-3.5.4-68.el6_0.2.x86_64. I setup 16G ramdisk samba share on both and ran cp from local ramdisk to samba ramdisk mount. If I cp 12 1-gig files, I get combined 100MB/s transfer rate. Single file cp maxes

Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-26 Thread Kevin Taylor
These are XP clients. > Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:28:33 -0700 > From: j...@samba.org > To: groucho.64...@hotmail.com > CC: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:06:48PM -0400, Kevin Taylor wrote: &g

Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-26 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 19:51 -0400, simo wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 00:32 +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > > Jeremy Allison wrote: > > > > [SNIP] > > > > > > > > Test using a modern (i.e. much later than 3.0.33) smbclient. > > > > > > > To back that up he is using CentOS 5, so there is no

Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-25 Thread simo
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 00:32 +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > Jeremy Allison wrote: > > [SNIP] > > > > > Test using a modern (i.e. much later than 3.0.33) smbclient. > > > > To back that up he is using CentOS 5, so there is no excuse for using > such an old version. Needs to switch to the samb

Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-25 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
Jeremy Allison wrote: [SNIP] Test using a modern (i.e. much later than 3.0.33) smbclient. To back that up he is using CentOS 5, so there is no excuse for using such an old version. Needs to switch to the samba3x packages that have been present since CentOS 5.5 asap. From recollection it i

Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-25 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:06:48PM -0400, Kevin Taylor wrote: > > We have a RAID set up as our main fileserver (running samba 3.0.33 on linux, > CentOS 5). The main disk area is an XFS partition of about 8TB. I'm using > iostat to monitor disk I/O since we've gotten complaints about speed and I'

Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-25 Thread Kevin Taylor
0 > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Kevin Taylor > wrote: > > > > We have a RAID set up as our main fileserver (running samba 3.0.33 on > > linux, CentOS 5). The main disk are

Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-25 Thread Chris Weiss
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Kevin Taylor wrote: > > We have a RAID set up as our main fileserver (running samba 3.0.33 on linux, > CentOS 5). The main disk area is an XFS partition of about 8TB. I'm using > iostat to monitor disk I/O since we've gotten complaints about speed and I'm > not

[Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-25 Thread Kevin Taylor
We have a RAID set up as our main fileserver (running samba 3.0.33 on linux, CentOS 5). The main disk area is an XFS partition of about 8TB. I'm using iostat to monitor disk I/O since we've gotten complaints about speed and I'm noticing that when I write something to the samba share, the write

Re: [Samba] Very slow transfers to Samba on Ubuntu

2009-06-25 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:26:59PM -0700, John Du wrote: > Have you looked at adjusting the "socket options" parameter in smb.conf? > > I use "socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192" in my > smb.conf and scp and samba take about the same amount of time to > transfer files fr

Re: [Samba] Very slow transfers to Samba on Ubuntu

2009-06-24 Thread Raghu A
Thanks Ben and John, for looking into this issue. I want to clarify since my earlier comment might be misinterpreted to imply I didn't appreciate your help. I certainly did. Raghu A wrote: > > > Well, 1KB is infact the culprit and it seems to be an artifact of the > application. SMB seems to

Re: [Samba] Very slow transfers to Samba on Ubuntu

2009-06-24 Thread Raghu A
Well, 1KB is infact the culprit and it seems to be an artifact of the application. SMB seems to use one packet for each "write()" call from the app. So my cygwin command on XP (cat file > remote_file) must be calling write(1KB). I controlled this write size with dd command and sure enough I hit t

Re: [Samba] Very slow transfers to Samba on Ubuntu

2009-06-24 Thread John Du
My samba server is 3.0.28a running on RHEL 4. My network is also 100Mbps. I copy a 100MB file from Windows XP to my samba server in about 20 seconds. Scp the same file from a Linux host to the same server takes about the same time. You may take a look at setting the Windows TCP buffer sizes

Re: [Samba] Very slow transfers to Samba on Ubuntu

2009-06-24 Thread Raghu A
I tried TCP_NODELAY and it didn't make a difference. I haven't tried SO_SNDBUF and RCVBUF, but I will. As the tcpdump shows there is lot of tcp window left. It is not just the server since linux samba client behaves much better. What determines SMB packet size? What is the throughput you get? I

Re: [Samba] Very slow transfers to Samba on Ubuntu

2009-06-24 Thread John Du
Have you looked at adjusting the "socket options" parameter in smb.conf? I use "socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192" in my smb.conf and scp and samba take about the same amount of time to transfer files from Windows to the samba server. Raghu A wrote: There is no disk

Re: [Samba] Very slow transfers to Samba on Ubuntu

2009-06-24 Thread Raghu A
There is no disk or CPU bottleneck or virus checking (server is latest ubuntu). scp at the same time as this transfer can write 3-4 faster to the same partition. This is an Atom processor but there is more cpu left. To be more specific: Why does XP send only 1KB at a time to the server? I think

Re: [Samba] Very slow transfers to Samba on Ubuntu

2009-06-24 Thread Ben Tyger
What type of file processors are you running along with samba?. Are you running the virus checking plugin or VFS(recycle bin)? Virus checking is very cpu and disk I/O intensive these can really slow down a samba server. I can't expect VFS is all that cheap either when moving big files. Raghu A wro

Re: [Samba] Very slow transfers to Samba on Ubuntu

2009-06-23 Thread Raghu A
Sample tcpdump for such a connection : Notice that there are only couple of 1KB chunks for each millisecond : 18:50:57.948157 IP 192.168.0.100.4366 > 192.168.0.104.445: P 2184:3276(1092) ack 103 win 64719 18:50:57.948374 IP 192.168.0.104.445 > 192.168.0.100.4366: P 103:154(51) ack 3276 win 6553

[Samba] Very slow transfers to Samba on Ubuntu

2009-06-23 Thread Raghu A
I mounted a samba volume on XP. XP and Ubuntu are connected over 100Mbps ethernet (router). I am writing a 4GB file from XP to Ubuntu and the transfer is extremely slow : only around 1-1.5 MB/s. This is not a network or disk issue since at the same time this transfer is gonig on, I can scp the s

Re: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-09-06 Thread David C. Rankin
Jeremy Allison wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:54:53PM -0500, Gregory Carter wrote: Oh, and BY THE WAY. I do not want to be a total cynic, but you are expecting samba to replace a software product that the SuSE corporation directly receives MILLIONS in contributions from, said vendor of p

RE: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-30 Thread Brian D. McGrew
a.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Very Slow! The newest Samba for RHEL 5.2 should be 3.0.28. Is there a reason this box isn't up to date? On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Brian D. McGrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So now after I've been playing around with the configuration and suc

Re: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-30 Thread Ryan Bair
The newest Samba for RHEL 5.2 should be 3.0.28. Is there a reason this box isn't up to date? On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Brian D. McGrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > So now after I've been playing around with the configuration and such, it > seems that the SMB server has become less usable.

RE: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Brian D. McGrew
So now after I've been playing around with the configuration and such, it seems that the SMB server has become less usable. Now, all the shares are visible but as soon as I try to access anything or copy anything I get "The network path is not valid". Again, trying from XP, 2003 and 2008. I'v

Re: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Brian McGrew
On 8/29/08 11:16 AM, "Jeremy Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:54:53PM -0500, Gregory Carter wrote: >> Oh, and BY THE WAY. >> >> I do not want to be a total cynic, but you are expecting samba to >> replace a software product that the SuSE corporation directly receiv

Re: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Charles Marcus
On 8/29/2008 1:54 PM, Gregory Carter wrote: > Oh, and BY THE WAY. > > I do not want to be a total cynic, but you are expecting samba to > replace a software product that the SuSE corporation directly receives > MILLIONS in contributions from, said vendor of product it is replacing. > (Microsoft.)

Re: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:54:53PM -0500, Gregory Carter wrote: > Oh, and BY THE WAY. > > I do not want to be a total cynic, but you are expecting samba to > replace a software product that the SuSE corporation directly receives > MILLIONS in contributions from, said vendor of product it is rep

Re: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Gregory Carter
Oh, and BY THE WAY. I do not want to be a total cynic, but you are expecting samba to replace a software product that the SuSE corporation directly receives MILLIONS in contributions from, said vendor of product it is replacing. (Microsoft.) SuSe would be the absolute LAST linux distro I wo

Re: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Gregory Carter
I am going to go with a bad samba build. Won't be the first time. Try different rpm versions from Red. Update or Backrev If that still doesn't work, try putting both the client and the server on a unmanaged gigabit switch and try the test again. -gc Brian McGrew wrote: System info: Re

Re: R: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 07:22:19AM -0700, Brian McGrew wrote: > That acutally made it worse, now it's estimating over 9 hours to copy 4GB. Yes, oplocks are a performance *enhancer*, not a drag on speed :-). -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https

Re: R: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Brian McGrew
>>> I¹m seeing very slow transfers from Samba I¹m not sure how else to >>> describe it. If I try and copy a 4GB DVD image from the server to any >>> Windows box (XP, 2003, 2008, MacOS) it estimates more than 4 hours to copy. >>> However, if I FTP to the server from any given client I can move

Re: R: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Brian McGrew
>> I¹m seeing very slow transfers from Samba I¹m not sure how else to >> describe it. If I try and copy a 4GB DVD image from the server to any >> Windows box (XP, 2003, 2008, MacOS) it estimates more than 4 hours to copy. >> However, if I FTP to the server from any given client I can move the

Re: R: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Gregory Carter
aggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Brian D. McGrew Inviato: venerdì 29 agosto 2008 7.33 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Oggetto: RE: [Samba] Very Slow! On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:34:02PM -0700, Brian McGrew wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008

Re: R: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> I¹m seeing very slow transfers from Samba I¹m not sure how else to > describe it. If I try and copy a 4GB DVD image from the server to any > Windows box (XP, 2003, 2008, MacOS) it estimates more than 4 hours to copy. > However, if I FTP to the server from any given client I can move the who

Re: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 10:49 -0400, Gerald Drouillard wrote: > Brian McGrew wrote: > > System info: > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga) > > Kerlen 2.6.18-8.el5 SMP x86_64 > > Samba version 3.0.23c-2 > > Eth0 && Eht1 bonded to bond0, 2Gbps. Try unbonding the NICs

Re: R: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Brian McGrew
On 8/29/08 8:33 AM, "Gregory Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting. > > That shouldn't be, must be missing something. > > Do you have anything at your disposal to measure the broadcast rate on > your ports for your switch? > > I would be curious to know what happens when you engage t

Re: R: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Gregory Carter
e: Try to disable oplocks? Oplocks = no Level 2 oplocks = no -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Brian D. McGrew Inviato: venerdì 29 agosto 2008 7.33 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Oggetto: RE: [Samba] Very Slow! On Thu, A

Re: R: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Brian McGrew
originale- >> Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per >> conto di Brian D. McGrew >> Inviato: venerdì 29 agosto 2008 7.33 >> A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: samba@lists.samba.org >> Oggetto: RE: [Samba] Very Slow! >> >> On Thu,

Re: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Gerald Drouillard
Brian McGrew wrote: System info: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga) Kerlen 2.6.18-8.el5 SMP x86_64 Samba version 3.0.23c-2 Eth0 && Eht1 bonded to bond0, 2Gbps. /etc/samba/smb.conf attached below... I¹m seeing very slow transfers from Samba I¹m not sure

Re: R: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Brian McGrew
> Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per > conto di Brian D. McGrew > Inviato: venerdì 29 agosto 2008 7.33 > A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: samba@lists.samba.org > Oggetto: RE: [Samba] Very Slow! > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:34:02PM -0700, Brian McGrew

R: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-29 Thread Deltasistemi DynDns
Try to disable oplocks? Oplocks = no Level 2 oplocks = no -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Brian D. McGrew Inviato: venerdì 29 agosto 2008 7.33 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Oggetto: RE: [Samba] Very Slow! On Thu, Aug

RE: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-28 Thread Brian D. McGrew
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:34:02PM -0700, Brian McGrew wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:20:09PM -0700, Brian McGrew wrote: > >> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 > > > > Quick try: Remove that. > > > > Curious question -- why did you set those options? > - >

Re: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-28 Thread David C. Rankin
Volker Lendecke wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:20:09PM -0700, Brian McGrew wrote: socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 Quick try: Remove that. Curious question -- why did you set those options? Volker That is in the default smb.conf distributed with many distr

Re: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:34:02PM -0700, Brian McGrew wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:20:09PM -0700, Brian McGrew wrote: > >> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 > > > > Quick try: Remove that. > > > > Curious question -- why did you set those options? > - >

Re: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-28 Thread Brian McGrew
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:20:09PM -0700, Brian McGrew wrote: >> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 > > Quick try: Remove that. > > Curious question -- why did you set those options? - It didn't change, still says 4 hours and is taking 3 to 4 seconds to copy 1k.

Re: [Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:20:09PM -0700, Brian McGrew wrote: > socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 Quick try: Remove that. Curious question -- why did you set those options? Volker pgpixy5KnCfiL.pgp Description: PGP signature -- To unsubscribe from this list go to

[Samba] Very Slow!

2008-08-28 Thread Brian McGrew
System info: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga) Kerlen 2.6.18-8.el5 SMP x86_64 Samba version 3.0.23c-2 Eth0 && Eht1 bonded to bond0, 2Gbps. /etc/samba/smb.conf attached below... I¹m seeing very slow transfers from Samba I¹m not sure how else to describe i

[Samba] Very slow file copy performance over a WAN (HELP)

2007-10-05 Thread James Lamanna
Hi, I've noticed that over a WAN (T1) I'm getting incredibly slow file copy performance. Using smbclient on a linux machine on one size of the WAN, As you can imagine, this makes all of our file shares unusable over the WAN. It's not an issue with WAN performance, because using scp to transfer the

[Samba] Very slow performance on reads, Samba 3.0.24

2007-10-01 Thread Bogdan Ilisei
Hello. I'm experiencing slow performance when clients read from a share on Samba 3.0.24. My clients are mostly Windows XP, 2k and maybe Vista. I've eliminated all possible bottlenecks. The filesystem doesnt' slow me down, nor the lvm'ed disks, as you can see here: (I used pipemeter & cat - poorm

RE: [Samba] Very slow execution of programs from a SAMBA share

2007-09-26 Thread Stuart Nixon
> You could try setting some of the oplock options. I think "fake oplocks = > yes" on the > application share could significantly increase the performance when executing. Éder, Thanks for your response. The slow share problem turned out to be a Samba/Ubuntu 7.04 problem with some NICs - symp

[Samba] Very slow execution of programs from a SAMBA share

2007-09-26 Thread Stuart Nixon
Hi. I've run into a significant performance problem, where Samba shares are fine except for programs executed from the shares, which take about 100x longer to launch than expected. Copying local Windows directories with large files to the Samba share is getting 30 Mbytes/second. However, trying

[Samba] very slow transfer with new version

2007-09-12 Thread AStA Technologiereferat
Hello! I sat up a new serrver containig the newest Samba version available through Debian-aptitude. Server: Core 2 Duo E6600 2,4GHz 2Gbyte RAM, 400GB HDD Debain 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007 i686 Samba: 3.0.24-6etch4 Clients: Win2k PC with min 1.5GHz and 512MByte

Re: [Samba] Very slow access to large files

2007-07-28 Thread Sébastien CRAMATTE
Christian Perrier escribió: > Quoting Eric Shuman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Hi all, >> >> I am having a problem accessing very large files through my samba shares >> after upgrading my file server to Debian Etch (Samba 3.0.24) from Debian >> Sarge (Samba ???). >> > > Debian sarge has 3.0.1

Re: [Samba] Very slow access to large files

2007-07-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Eric Shuman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi all, > > I am having a problem accessing very large files through my samba shares > after upgrading my file server to Debian Etch (Samba 3.0.24) from Debian > Sarge (Samba ???). Debian sarge has 3.0.14a -- To unsubscribe from this list go to th

[Samba] Very slow access to large files

2007-07-19 Thread Eric Shuman
Hi all, I am having a problem accessing very large files through my samba shares after upgrading my file server to Debian Etch (Samba 3.0.24) from Debian Sarge (Samba ???). When trying to open a very large (> 2G) MrSid image in ArcGIS what use to take about 10 seconds now takes over 30 minutes.

Re: [Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

2007-06-15 Thread Steve Romanow
How about the temp directory in Office Preferences. Is it on the local workstation, or does it default to the dir where the file is opened. I always thought that could slow things down. (i.e. the creation of the ~foo.doc file). HTH, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following UR

Re: [Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

2007-06-14 Thread Aaron Kincer
I fixed this by using the following in login scripts for every share each domain account was supposed to have: net use driveletter: /delete net use driverletter: \\newserver\newsharelocation This fixed 99% of the invalid shares we had. There were a few people that had manually mapped drives. I

Re: [Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

2007-06-14 Thread Jonathan Johnson
Please review the Samba HOWTO, chapter 10, "Common Errors" where it discusses this issue. http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#id350945 Jonathan Johnson Sutinen Consulting, Inc. www.sutinen.com Aaron Kincer wrote: Also, as others have mentioned, Wind

Re: [Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba (Solved)

2007-06-14 Thread Berend Tober
Marcello Romani wrote: Berend Tober ha scritto: The first time a Word or Excel file is opened, i.e., when either Word or Excel have not been actively running "recently" (like, say for several minutes or more), the time it takes to start the application and load the file seem inordinately long.

Re: [Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

2007-06-13 Thread Marcello Romani
Berend Tober ha scritto: The first time a Word or Excel file is opened, i.e., when either Word or Excel have not been actively running "recently" (like, say for several minutes or more), the time it takes to start the application and load the file seem inordinately long. Once the first evolut

Re: [Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

2007-06-13 Thread Aaron Kincer
Is there any difference in behavior when you open the files from within the applications themselves so that you can remove the application load time from the equation? Just a little FYI--MS Office is a strange animal in how it and Samba play together. It is not uncommon to see behavior there t

Re: [Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

2007-06-13 Thread Alex Crow
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 13:03 -0400, Berend Tober wrote: > Alex Crow wrote: > > This wasn't a migration from an NT domain was it? We had the problem > > after a migration that starting up Office programs was incredibly slow - > > it turned out there were a load of Office registry entries pointing to

Re: [Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

2007-06-13 Thread Berend Tober
Berend Tober wrote: > Aaron Kincer wrote: >> ... Do you get the same behavior if you attempt to open a .doc file with Open Office? > The answer is yes to that, but I would estimate that it is a little less noticeable. Let me correct that. It is a lot less noticable. Maybe even it doesn't ha

Re: [Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

2007-06-13 Thread Berend Tober
Aaron Kincer wrote: My first question would be does this happen with other applications or strictly Office? No one has complained about other apps, which in our case the next most heavily used is AutoCAD. I think I would have heard by now if that were a problem. Do you get the same behavio

Re: [Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

2007-06-13 Thread Berend Tober
Alex Crow wrote: This wasn't a migration from an NT domain was it? We had the problem after a migration that starting up Office programs was incredibly slow - it turned out there were a load of Office registry entries pointing to UNC paths on the old Windows PDC. No. Not NT. Previous file serv

Re: [Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

2007-06-13 Thread Aaron Kincer
My first question would be does this happen with other applications or strictly Office? Do you get the same behavior if you attempt to open a .doc file with Open Office? Second, have you watched your samba logs in real time (example: tail -f /var/log/samba/) as you try to open a file to see wh

Re: [Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

2007-06-13 Thread Alex Crow
Berend, This wasn't a migration from an NT domain was it? We had the problem after a migration that starting up Office programs was incredibly slow - it turned out there were a load of Office registry entries pointing to UNC paths on the old Windows PDC. Just an idea... Cheers Alex -- To unsu

[Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

2007-06-13 Thread Berend Tober
The first time a Word or Excel file is opened, i.e., when either Word or Excel have not been actively running "recently" (like, say for several minutes or more), the time it takes to start the application and load the file seem inordinately long. Once the first evolution is complete, files ope

RE: [Samba] Very slow changing permissions from Windows client

2006-12-01 Thread James A. Dinkel
How do I get this "network trace" that Jeremy is asking about? James Dinkel -Original Message- From: Jeremy Allison On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 07:50:08AM -0600, James A. Dinkel wrote: > Our samba server authenticates to Windows 2000 Active Directory and I have ea support enabled on the shar

Re: [Samba] Very slow changing permissions from Windows client

2006-11-17 Thread Charles Marcus
Now copying and accessing files is plenty fast, but when setting up permissions on directories that contain 100 GB or so of files and subdirectories takes like 60 minutes from the time I hit Ok to the time the permission are applied and the box goes away. This is being set from a Windows client b

[Samba] Very slow changing permissions from Windows client

2006-11-17 Thread James A. Dinkel
Our samba server authenticates to Windows 2000 Active Directory and I have ea support enabled on the share and on the file system. The OS is Debian Stable, fully updated and using Samba 3.0.23c from Backports. Now copying and accessing files is plenty fast, but when setting up permissions on d

[Samba] Samba very slow on one PC and very fast on another.

2006-01-14 Thread PFC
Server : Athlon 64 3000+ ; 512MB Ram ; lots of disks ; nforce3 chipset ; integrated nvidia gigabit NIC. Gentoo 2.6.15 linux 64-bits ; Samba 3.0.14a-r2 Clients :

[Samba] Samba VERY slow

2005-08-19 Thread Lonnie
Hello All, I have been trying to speed up my connection from a Windows XP machine to a Fedora 3 system running Samba both having 100Mbit connections but when I try browse my directory on the samba server, it seems to run VERY slow and takes a long time to do anything. This seems to be much m

[Samba] very slow writes from samba client to samba server

2005-04-11 Thread Matt Morgan
I'm running Fedora Core 3 on two machines; a server and a client. On the server, I have the package samba-3.0.10-1.fc3 installed; I assume this means I have samba version 3.0.10. On the client, I have samba-client-3.0.10-1.fc3, i.e., the same version. On the same network, I have a Windows XP home

Re: [Samba] Very slow wbinfo -u

2005-03-28 Thread Erik Holst Trans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Again, I have traced some more on the problem. It is the failing name resolution via netbios that delay the output from wbinfo -u. I can see from a trace that failing lookup's are on other DC's in the domain, which i don't have access to, but they

[Samba] Very slow wbinfo -u

2005-03-26 Thread Erik Holst Trans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have set up Samba-3.0.11 to retrive account information from W2k server via winbind, and it works. But is takes about 10 sec. to retrive the information. I have dumped some traffic from the request, and it looks like this: A lot of these: 21:21

[Samba] Very slow SAMBA

2005-01-27 Thread cheexer
I started using Samba 3.0.2a in Suse 9.1 (x86_64). The samba server was lighting fast with both Linux and Windows clients. I have a closed network with myself as the only user, so I'm not to concerned about security. I "updated" to Samba 3.0.8. this turns out to be a big mistake. the Windo

[Samba] very slow transfert rate and charge cpu high

2005-01-20 Thread guillot
hi, sorry for my english ... I have a problem with samba 3.0.10 on FC3 and machine XP ; a transfert from XP to samba server is very very slow with huge file ( > 1go ) and the cpu charge is high ( > 80% cpu ) for the smbd process . help please ... thanks in advance Best regards -- Didier GUILLOT

[Samba] Very slow network after Samba3 upgrade with 2k clients.

2004-12-16 Thread Greg
anyone having, had, or even have any thoughts on the issue described below? its killing me The short description of the problem is: using direct to server UNC type paths, we see 'normal' speeds. Going threw a DFS (re)director, we see very bad performance from any machine running 3.0.*

[Samba] very slow link between Win2k SP4 and Linux samba server (2.2.8a)

2003-12-15 Thread jshin
I've been experiencing an incredibly slow samba access from a Win2k SP4 client to a Linux samba server (Mandrake 9.0, samba 2.2.8a). It seems like the file transfer rate is not so slow, but the initial opening of files on the Linux samba server takes very long (10 ~ 20 seconds). The directory l

[Samba] very slow at logon

2003-07-25 Thread Malika Reymond
Hi everyone, I have a samba server 2.2.8 as PDC and I have a problem with one pc with Windows XP pro. When a user wants to connect to the samba server it takes a long time (also when the user wants to logoff) but another pc with winXP pro on the domain works fine so I check the keys in the registr

[Samba] Very slow file transfers on T1

2003-06-03 Thread Tamas Levente
Hi, my problem is that I have 2 servers on in the US and one in Hungary. I want to mount a share from the US server here. But file transfers are very slow. (Never more than 22kbytes/sec) The bottleneck is in the US the T1. The architecture looks like: Fileserver -1Gb- Server -T1 (GRE TUNNEL)- I

Re: [Samba] (Repost to list) Copying large files xp pro ->Samba very slow

2003-03-24 Thread Me
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, James Richardson wrote: > If there were to be a problem at or above the SMB layer then why are we > not seeing lots of other complaints in this area? I have transferred > over 30GB of data over 100BaseT at av average of over 10MBytes/sec with > no burstiness at all. I have tr

[Samba] Samba Very Slow When Using AFS and MS Office (is this a Bug?)

2002-09-21 Thread Husain Ali Al-Mohssen
Hi All, I am having a problem with Samba that seems to be a bug. I say this because I read the archives and they described a problem similar to mine and were told that it was a bug in older version of Samba and the latest version should have it fixed. I am running what is essentially a RH 7.3 on