Does anyone have information on SAMBA traffic and networking issues with running SAMBA? I need amunition (white papers, comments, facts, etc.) to fire at my networking guys who say SAMBA will more than double the network traffic and do bad things? I am new to this company (they had bad luck when they tried to implement SAMBA before) and am trying to get SAMBA re-established here. My old shop ran it with great success. I have a WinDD server (v3.5 w/15 user license), Chameleon NFS 7.0 (which is slow and doesn't work half the time) and the possiblity of about 200 users on 200 UNIX workstations with homes scattered everywhere. We run NIS+ and the new version of SAMBA (1.9.18p1) looks like it should follow the NIS paths for the mounts. Looks to be great stuff. TIA and many thanks to the SAMBA support team.
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Jim Bramlette wrote:> Does anyone have information on SAMBA traffic and networking issues with > running SAMBA? I need amunition (white papers, comments, facts, etc.) > to fire at my networking guys who say SAMBA will more than double the > network trafficof course it will. and double your transfer speed, and double the users' efficiency!> and do bad things?only as bad as microsoft's protocol.> I am new to this company (they had > bad luck when they tried to implement SAMBA before) and am trying to get > SAMBA re-established here. My old shop ran it with great success.well, if they want to pay me some $$$ then i'll make sure they get it right (but you've done it before, yourself. damn, damn. ;-) please tell them anyway!> I have a WinDD server (v3.5 w/15 user license), Chameleon NFS 7.0 (which > is slow and doesn't work half the time) and the possiblity of about 200 > users on 200 UNIX workstations with homes scattered everywhere. We run > NIS+ and the new version of SAMBA (1.9.18p1) looks like it should follow > the NIS paths for the mounts. Looks to be great stuff.yep!> TIA and many thanks to the SAMBA support team.nice to be acknowledged. best regards, luke <a href="mailto:lkcl@switchboard.net" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton </a> <a href="http://mailhost.cb1.com/~lkcl"> Samba Consultancy and Support </a>
You wrote: | Does anyone have information on SAMBA traffic and networking issues with | running SAMBA? I need ammunition (white papers, comments, facts, etc.) | to fire at my networking guys who say SAMBA will more than double the | network traffic and do bad things? I am new to this company (they had | bad luck when they tried to implement SAMBA before) and am trying to get | SAMBA re-established here. My old shop ran it with great success. | | I have a WinDD server (v3.5 w/15 user license), Chameleon NFS 7.0 (which | is slow and doesn't work half the time) and the possibility of about 200 | users on 200 UNIX workstations with homes scattered everywhere. We run | NIS+ and the new version of SAMBA (1.9.18p1) looks like it should follow | the NIS paths for the mounts. Looks to be great stuff. Were they by any chance exporting via samba something which they imported via NFS? This is a classical source of performance and bandwidth problems... Formally, Samba is directly comparable to NFS 3.0 over TCP/IP, with a slightly higher tendency to send small packets under light-load conditions, but a willingness to shut up and tear down connections if they're not needed and a tendency to throttle-down very large transfers. I can help more if I can get more info... --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people 185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Willowdale, Ontario | davecb@hobbes.ss.org, canada.sun.com M2N 1Y3. 416-223-8968 | http://java.science.yorku.ca/~davecb