AW: SAMBA is slow.

Stephan M. Ott
Thu, 24 Jan 2002 05:04:14 -0000

Where Samba looks for the smb.conf depends on a) the version you use and b)
if you installed the tar-Version or the rpm-Version shipped with SuSE. The
Version shipped with SuSE normally looks for it in /etc/smb.conf. But when
you install the tar-Version (thats what I did because I needed the new
2.2.2-Version) it will be looked for in /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf. My
first mistake was to install first the rpm-Version and then over-installed
the new one. SO I had two different smb.conf-files: On in /etc and one in
/usr/local/samba/lib. UNfortunately I did every changes in /etc/smb.conf and
was suprised that it had absolutely no effect on Samba, until I learned that
there is another smb.conf:-)
Maybe you did the same and therefore have the same "problem" as I had
?

Stephan

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Von: samba-admin@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org]Im
Auftrag von Thorsten Brabetz
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2002 13:19
An: samba@lists.samba.org
Betreff: SAMBA is slow.




Dear List Members,

   Sorry to bother you with this, but I really do not know where else to get
help. Searching the SAMBA and SuSE homepage did not shed any light on this
problem, neither did mailings on two Linux User Groups, so this is sort of
my
last hope.

   I am trying to integrate my Linux PC into a mixed network of UNIX and
Windows 2000 machines. Not quite a surprise, the integration with the UNIX
part of the network was rather seamless, but I have big problems connecting
to the Windows 2000 server. I got the connection sort of running, but only
with a few B/s...

   Starting smbclient manually with the -b 1200 option (i.e. restricting
buffersize to 1200 instead of 65500), sorted this problem; network speed
went
up to about 490 kB/s (it's a quite busy 10 MB/s Eithernet). However, as
usual, sorting one problem creates two new ones:

   First, I do not always want to start any network service manually,
mounting would be nice... Hence my wish to permanently reduce the buffersize
to 1200. However, as far as I can tell, the configuratoin file for all SAMBA
services seems to be smb.conf. I found this file, but according to the man
entry,  there is no such parameter as buffersize. My suspicion is that "max
xmit" serves the same purpose, but setting that parameter did not bring any
change. So question number one: which parameter do I set to what value to
permanently force a reduction in buffersize from 65500 to 1200.

   Second, closely related to the first problem, I now have the suspicion
that my SAMBA services do not find the smb.conf file, as doing changes did
not have any impact on the SAMBA services (in fact, removing the smb.conf
file did not cause as much as a warning message). So, how do I find out
where
SAMBA expects its configuration file to be? I checked the man pages, and the
file is where it is supposed to be according to the manual... Alternatively,
can I force SAMBA to look for the smb.conf file at a different location? I
know the -l option for the SAMBA daemon, but my machine is supposed to be a
client, not a server. How do I tell programs like smbclient where to look
for
the configuration file?

   I have reached the end of my knowledge here (in fact I reached it already
quite a while ago, wild guessing is going on at the moment), so any tip
would
be greatly appreciated!!! Being a complete beginner on Linux, I would
particularly appreciate any tips that do not involve any fancy maneuvers,
like e.g. recompiling the kernel and stuff...

Thank you in advance!

Best wishes



Thorsten




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