I've looked on the 'net and found some references to poor performance but I haven't seen a solution. My environment: Linux: SuSE 9.2 Pro AMD64 Windows: Windows XP Pro (32-bit) on an Athlon64 Networking: everything connected with GoC.>From the Linux box, I want to basically back up some stuff from the Windowsbox. To do so, I use the following: smbclient //winbox/share "" -N -Tc backup.tar This reports the data transfer rate at around 65kb/s If I use ftp from the Windows box to the Linux box, I can ftp files at around 15MB/s (near hard drive write speed on the Windows box). Even when I manually copy files using: smbclient //winbox/share "" -N and then get bigfile.zip I still get the slow speeds. I did see some things on the 'net about using smbmount and turn the TTL up to 10 seconds or so. I tried this and simply used tar to copy from the mount to a tar file on the local Linux box and the transfer rates are still below 100kb/s Any ideas?
Hallo Shane Hebert,> My environment: > > Linux: SuSE 9.2 Pro AMD64 > Windows: Windows XP Pro (32-bit) on an Athlon64 > Networking: everything connected with GoC. >[...]> > This reports the data transfer rate at around 65kb/s[...]> around 15MB/s (near hard drive write speed on the Windows box).[...]> the transfer rates are still below 100kb/s > > Any ideas?Sound's that you have a Network Problem. - Have you a managed Switch who can you show some Infos about damaged/wrong Packet's ? - show (on linux Server) ifconfig any errors on RX/TX packets or a lot of collisions ? - what show mii-tool for your ethercard? (special duplex setting, link state and so on). - You have a Gigabit Network?. Are the Cables of type CAT5e and with all 8 Pins connected? Greetings Thomas
I'm betting you using the lin98sk-driver (which is typical for built in networkadapters on athlon64 mb:s). I think I pulled all my hair off trying to solve the same problem a few month ago. It's just so typical when you change all your hardware, upgrade the software and then run into problems. You have no way of knowing whats causing it. Anyway there seems to be a specific issue between samba and this driver. My problem was only with samba, all other services (ftp, nfs, and a lot of others) ran just fine. Changing NIC to another brand (Intel), ie. changing driver, solved my problem. I've also heard that this specific issue seems somehow connected to just gigbit-speeds but I haven't verified that myself. As a side note. The "lin98sk-card" runs just fine under windows s? i'm pretty sure there's a driver issue. Good luck!