On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 11:15:58AM -0400, Ludovic Rouse-Lamarre wrote: > You are right. Speeds are amazing with smbclient. I got 6Mbps in > Montreal and 16Mbps on amazon. When using filezilla I observed the block > size was much bigger with smbclient. It is 16KB when mounting with fstab > cifs and its 128KB with smbclient. I am guessing this is what needs to > be fixed, right?
That's one thing. The parallel issue of multiple requests that smbclient does is the other one. > We mostly use windows XP professional but we also have > mac and fedora. Any tips on how to fix our clients? You might want to talk to Microsoft, Apple or the Fedora Project about these issues. But honestly -- I don't see this will significantly improve. Network file systems are just not made for high latencies. The only one I know that might have a chance is OpenAFS. Volker -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
