On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 03:26:57PM -0400, John Klimek wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by "try linux-cifs". Are you suggesting I > create local mount points using linux-cifs as the filesystem type?
You referred to it as "linux-cifs", I just followed your wording. I mean you should use the Linux filesystem type "cifs" in your fstab or use the "-t cifs" argument to the Linux mount command. > I'm willing to upgrade so that's not really a big issue. I just need > to know which version to upgrade to (eg. Samba3 or Samba4) Samba3 or 4 won't help you at all for this, you need the proper kernel support. > I've heard that before as well but I've also heard/seen benchmarks > where SMB2 is much, much faster than SMB1. However, like you said, > perhaps it's due to SMB optimizations. > > Do you suggest I stick with Samba3 v3.3.2 and just use SMB? > > I'd really prefer to use SMB2 (if possible) especially since I > upgraded to Windows Server 2008 almost specifically for this feature > but if you are telling me that Samba3 (v3.3.2) will provide me almost > exactly the same performance than I'll stick with that. However, if I > need to optimize my configuration (versus no additional optimization > with Samba4?) than that's a different story. > > Thanks so much for your help! Sorry to say that, but you got caught by Microsoft marketing for completely non-reasons. Upgrading to Windows 2008 just to support Linux clients better is -- well -- not going to help you at all. You better read your license agreement if you can return the W2k8 license :-) Volker
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