On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:06:40AM -0400, Ludovic Rouse-Lamarre wrote: > I am currently in the process of improving performance for a Samba 3.3.4 > server on FreeBSD 7.0. The samba server works great when mounted from > another machine located on the same network but when I try to use it > over our corporate VPN (OpenVPN with tap interface) the throughput won't > go over 4,5 Mbps. The ping between the samba client and the server is > around 20ms. I have used a linux machine on amazon's elastic cloud to > connect to the corporate VPN and mount the samba share located on our > web host. There is at least 20 Mbps of bandwidth available between the > two in both ways. > > I have also tested the throughput from our Montreal office where we have > a 10 Mbps download. I have tested with fedora, windows 7 and windows xp > and I can't get more than 4 or 5 Mbps there. > > Is this situation to be expected or should I be getting better throughput?
Try the smbclient get command. That should be better. If it is, everything else is pretty much a client problem. Volker -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
