G+D Computing Pty Ltd
2001-Apr-09 00:44 UTC
Win2K and multiple Samba servers and Samba 2.07
Hello to all, This is my first ever use of a mailing list so bear with my ramblings and illiterate prose. I have been using samba from 2.03 to 2.07 for over a year now. We run DHCP, WINS on the samba (acting as domain) box running Mandrake 6.0. Windows machines are running everything from Win95 up to Win2K. With Win2K I have problems with slow read/write, particularly for one application which reads byte by byte. This program stores its data files on the server. Both ftp and Windows explorer file speed is very similar, so I don't like to point the finger at Samba. But this application reading byte by byte is painfully slow. I note the 2nd read of the same file is much faster, but I assume this is Win2K caching the file. If I turn off oplocks, then always the same file read is slow. It's got to the point where I have removed Win2K and gone back to NT4.0 sp6. NT4.0 has no speed file read problems. Is there something nasty in Win2K that you guys may know ? It seems like there is an overhead for calling a byte read which is inefficient, but surely the operating system (Win2K) can compensate for this ? I think the general network is okay, and since NT4.0 and other windows boxes have no problem, what's Win2K doing special ? SP1 is installed on win2k computers (well it was when I was running it) I've found samba to be very reliable and stable. I've recently added a 2nd Samba server running Redhat 6.2. I wanted the share authentication to be done via the first samba's smb password list, I've set the first server up as DOMAIN. Setting security = share or security = domain won't work I believe when you have a samba box partly emulating the domain. I was wondering what are the options in 2.0.7 for this or do I need to get 2.2 Alpha ? Thanks in advance. Edmund Martin -------------------------------------- G+D Computing Suite 1, Level 7 541 Kent Street SYDNEY 2000 Tel: + 61 2 9264 2977 Fax: + 61 2 9264 2066 e-mail: strand7@gd.com.au http://www.strand.aust.com -------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
G+D Computing Pty Ltd
2001-Apr-09 00:53 UTC
Win2K and multiple Samba servers and Samba 2.07
Hello to all, This is my first ever use of a mailing list so bear with my ramblings and illiterate prose. I have been using samba from 2.03 to 2.07 for over a year now. We run DHCP, WINS on the samba (acting as domain) box running Mandrake 6.0. Windows machines are running everything from Win95 up to Win2K. With Win2K I have problems with slow read/write, particularly for one application which reads byte by byte. This program stores its data files on the server. Both ftp and Windows explorer file speed is very similar, so I don't like to point the finger at Samba. But this application reading byte by byte is painfully slow. I note the 2nd read of the same file is much faster, but I assume this is Win2K caching the file. If I turn off oplocks, then always the same file read is slow. It's got to the point where I have removed Win2K and gone back to NT4.0 sp6. NT4.0 has no speed file read problems. Is there something nasty in Win2K that you guys may know ? It seems like there is an overhead for calling a byte read which is inefficient, but surely the operating system (Win2K) can compensate for this ? I think the general network is okay, and since NT4.0 and other windows boxes have no problem, what's Win2K doing special ? SP1 is installed on win2k computers (well it was when I was running it) I've found samba to be very reliable and stable. I've recently added a 2nd Samba server running Redhat 6.2. I wanted the share authentication to be done via the first samba's smb password list, I've set the first server up as DOMAIN. Setting security = share or security = domain won't work I believe when you have a samba box partly emulating the domain. I was wondering what are the options in 2.0.7 for this or do I need to get 2.2 Alpha ? Thanks in advance. Edmund Martin -------------------------------------- G+D Computing Suite 1, Level 7 541 Kent Street SYDNEY 2000 Tel: + 61 2 9264 2977 Fax: + 61 2 9264 2066 e-mail: strand7@gd.com.au http://www.strand.aust.com --------------------------------------