I'm having performance problems that seem to involve SAMBA in the equation so I thought I'd ask if there was something obvious I'm stuffing up or a known anomoly. A mate of mine runs MYOB Premier (the brilliant (not!) multi-user accounting package which claims to not support SAMBA (or visa versa). I've had it running glitch free for two years on a Samba share off a linux box. They are so pleased that they are going the next step to Win4Lin Server Edition and Thin-client Linux X for desktop apps which have an OSS equivelant. Currently they need to keep MYOB. Problem is that when they run Win4Lin thin-client from the server that also runs the samba share, the only way to share the accounting database with the other windows users is to do so via a network share - enter SAMBA. If I run this single user mode (direct file access) in Win4Lin its faster than windows. If I run using a network share served on the same server by samba, its performance is OK. If I logon with another user from a Win98 PC and share the same network database, the performance is really really slow. There seems to be lots and lots of netbios traffic. I'm not sure if this is a samba issue, a kernel issue, a win4lin issue or an MYOB issue (which they will obviously not respond to). Obviously a lot of this has to do with the interesting way MYOB have chosen to implement database sharing. Unfortunately until it can be replaced that is not fixable. If someone in the samba community has 2c worth I'm all ears. It's currently stopping me from going thin-client across this small but growing company. This may seem like a roight cowpat but it seems to be the only way I can setup the requirement. TIA Stuart Guthrie
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:20:12PM +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote:> I'm having performance problems that seem to involve SAMBA in the > equation so I thought I'd ask if there was something obvious I'm > stuffing up or a known anomoly. > > A mate of mine runs MYOB Premier (the brilliant (not!) multi-user > accounting package which claims to not support SAMBA (or visa versa). > > I've had it running glitch free for two years on a Samba share off a > linux box. > > They are so pleased that they are going the next step to Win4Lin Server > Edition and Thin-client Linux X for desktop apps which have an OSS > equivelant. Currently they need to keep MYOB. > > Problem is that when they run Win4Lin thin-client from the server that > also runs the samba share, the only way to share the accounting database > with the other windows users is to do so via a network share - enter > SAMBA. > > If I run this single user mode (direct file access) in Win4Lin its > faster than windows. If I run using a network share served on the same > server by samba, its performance is OK. If I logon with another user > from a Win98 PC and share the same network database, the performance is > really really slow. There seems to be lots and lots of netbios traffic. > I'm not sure if this is a samba issue, a kernel issue, a win4lin issue > or an MYOB issue (which they will obviously not respond to).Can you explain your setup a little more clearly please. Thin client setups are not obvious :-). I'd like to know what client machines are accessing the Samba share, and what types. Thanks, Jeremy.