[Samba] XP clients regularly lost mapped samba share. samba 3.5

2010-03-31 Thread live.fx
Hi all. I have some complaints from Win XP users. Win XP clients regularly lost samba share - mapped as network drive. I don`t see any errors in logs. 1. I have 4 linux machines, with mapped SAMBA 3.5 shares as CIFS. - never lost. 2. Some Windows XP clients have this problem, but some is

Re: [Samba] XP clients regularly lost mapped samba share. samba 3.5

2010-03-31 Thread live.fx
Hi, Helmut How do they lose the connection? I am working in a (very small) LAN with a Samba 3.4.x server, a Windows- 2000 client and a Windows XP-Home client. They just can not use P drive after some time. 1. User simple mount network share as permanent drive named P. All ok. 2. Some time

Re: [Samba] Samba Version required for Win7 Clients

2010-03-16 Thread live.fx
csirt-3 wrote: Hi, which version of Samba do i need, when i want to run Win 7 Clients ? At the moment i am running Samba version 3.0.28a with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. regards -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions:

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5 slow. Help with benchmarks !

2010-03-15 Thread live.fx
John M. Drescher wrote: The switch here is a metaphor for ability to change the default socket options. Basically giving you an ability to change some setting does not mean the setting will help if you do change it. John Nice metaphor... I have insane number of trying, with all

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5 slow. Help with benchmarks !

2010-03-15 Thread live.fx
also test with connection between another linux node and server: LinuxNode02 - Server : NFS LinuxNode02:~ # time cp -v /4GB_test.file /Server/Projects/ `/4GB_test.file' - `/Server/Projects/4GB_test.file' real0m59.831s user0m0.120s sys 0m7.692s approx.speed = 69.4 MB/sec

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5. Well done. [SOLVED]

2010-03-15 Thread live.fx
The problem is solved. It was problem of extremely chaotic LAN topology, and old hardware also. I found 2 computers ( Windows 7 ) - with transfer speed to SAMBA server = 80-100 MB/sec. Fast like FTP and NFS. I don`t say nothing about LAN topology, because our administrator say me LAN is

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5 slow. Help with benchmarks !

2010-03-15 Thread live.fx
Jim Salter-2 wrote: I get about 51MB/sec over my gigabit LAN, serving from Samba 3.4.0 on Ubuntu Karmic amd64 to smbclient 3.3.6 on FreeBSD 7.3-R amd64. 5tb# smbclient -I 192.168.0.20 -U user //192.168.0.20/share -c get 1G.bin Enter user's password: Domain=[BANSHEE] OS=[Unix]

[Samba] Samba 3.5 slow. Help with benchmarks !

2010-03-14 Thread live.fx
Situation: Server: Linux OpenSUSE 11.2 x86 fileserver. Quad Core CPU, 2 Gb RAM, Raid 5 SMB-shared massive. 2TB Samba 3.5.1 Clients: 16 Linux clients (OpenSUSE 11.2) - connect to server trough NFS. 8 Windows clients (5 Windows XP, 3 or 4 Windows 7). Server - is member of windows Domain.

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5 slow. Help with benchmarks !

2010-03-14 Thread live.fx
Miguel Medalha wrote: socket options = SO_BROADCAST SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY It has been repeated ad nauseam that with modern kernels you shouldn't use socket options unless you know very well what you are doing and you have a very good

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5 slow. Help with benchmarks !

2010-03-14 Thread live.fx
Miguel Medalha wrote: I use socket options because 99% places in Internet recommends this, and no one say about modern kernels - really. You are first :) And of course, this options not give me any visible effect. The problem with the information on the Internet is that it

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5 slow. Help with benchmarks !

2010-03-14 Thread live.fx
John M. Drescher wrote: Socket options will not quadruple your speed. I would start by investigating the reason for slowness. Is this with small files? What performance do you get for a 4GB file? Could permissions be slowing you down? Could it be the raid? Thanks for attention.

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5 slow. Help with benchmarks !

2010-03-14 Thread live.fx
Miguel Medalha wrote: Can you show me, how yours SAMBA work in Gigabit LAN ? What speeds ? I can't measure them right now but I can tell you that I have 2 networks consisting of Samba Domain Controllers serving only Windows clients and the network speeds are very high. One of

Re: [Samba] Samba 3.5 slow. Help with benchmarks !

2010-03-14 Thread live.fx
Helmut Hullen wrote: Give a man a switch, and he'll switch! Viele Gruesse! Helmut What about? What switch you mean? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Samba-3.5-slow.-Help-with-benchmarks-%21-tp27894473p27897251.html Sent from the Samba - General mailing list