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. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba