Kostic, Jacques
2010-Jan-20 16:16 UTC
[Samba] How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows Share under W2K3
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.Kostic at pmintl.com<mailto:Jacques.Kostic at pmintl.com> Phone: +41 (58) 242 7727 Fax: +41 (58) 242 0101
Volker Lendecke
2010-Jan-20 17:14 UTC
[Samba] How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows Share under W2K3
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:16:38PM +0100, Kostic, Jacques wrote:> 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?Hmm. iMac is client or server? Volker -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/attachments/20100120/8ab4a2ed/attachment.pgp>
Kostic, Jacques
2010-Jan-21 08:31 UTC
[Samba] How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows Share under W2K3
Hi Volker, iMac is the client. Jko Jacques KOSTIC Philip Morris International Senior IS Analyst Finance Systems Av Rhodanie 50 1001 Lausanne E-mail: Jacques.Kostic at pmintl.com<mailto:Jacques.Kostic at pmintl.com> Phone: +41 (58) 242 7727 Fax: +41 (58) 242 0101
Volker Lendecke
2010-Jan-21 08:52 UTC
[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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/attachments/20100121/9e399e10/attachment.pgp>
Kostic, Jacques
2010-Jan-21 13:03 UTC
[Samba] How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows Share under W2K3
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.Lendecke at SerNet.DE] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:52 AM To: Kostic, Jacques Cc: samba at 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
Volker Lendecke
2010-Jan-21 13:26 UTC
[Samba] 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/attachments/20100121/676e40a8/attachment.pgp>
Kostic, Jacques
2010-Jan-21 13:34 UTC
[Samba] How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows Share under W2K3
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.Lendecke at SerNet.DE] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 2:27 PM To: Kostic, Jacques Cc: samba at 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
Volker Lendecke
2010-Jan-21 13:58 UTC
[Samba] 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/attachments/20100121/dfbf5843/attachment.pgp>
Kostic, Jacques
2010-Jan-21 13:59 UTC
[Samba] How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows Share under W2K3
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.Lendecke at SerNet.DE] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 2:58 PM To: Kostic, Jacques Cc: samba at 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
Kostic, Jacques
2010-Jan-21 15:21 UTC
[Samba] How to speed up Samba From Mac OS 10.6 to access Windows Share under W2K3
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.Lendecke at SerNet.DE] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:52 AM To: Kostic, Jacques Cc: samba at 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