Hi, I've set up an OpenBSD PDC server for a client, serving some 40 computers, and did not encounter that performance issue you mentioned. I did not use OpenLDAP, relying instead on tdbsam and unix accounts. It runs OpenBSD 4.4 with samba from packages.
Also, as some have mentioned, some performance issues were fixed (http://www.vnode.ch/fixing_seekdir). See if you're not running an older samba version. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Paul M <[email protected]> wrote: > I recall seeing in the samba docs that setting the account info in > samba could optionally also add the entries on the unix side - meaning > you only need to set set it once. I'm hazy on the details, perhaps look > into alternatives to using LDAP. When I've done this I've always > entered them separately. > > One unrelated point I'd like to make is performance - I've found > really annoying connection delays, particularly with word and excel. > Transfer rates are ok, it's opening and saving files that's an > issue. > Extensive googling and I could make it tolerable at best. As this is > for a client, it's proved to be an embarasment. I would dearly love to > find I'm doing something wrong, and I expect that I will, but my > advice would be to check it out without committing yourself, if > that's possible. > I did find one article on the net that said that all bsd's suffer > performance issues with samba, and the Samba docs do seem to be > completely linux-centric. > I'll check out the link below. > > > paul
