On Thursday, 28.06.2012 at 11:07 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2012, Todor Fassl wrote: > > >Is there any reason to believe that a samba server would be slower > >when serving up roaming profiles than a real Windows server? > > In my experience, Samba is much faster than Windows on comparable > hardware. From 3 to 5 times faster, depending on function. > > >Our Windows guy insists samba is slow but I don't believe it. He > >claims that when you load a roamng profile, Windows downloads only > >files that have changed and samba downloads everything. But he > >doesn't know anything about samba and I don't know where he got that > >from.
However native speed won't be important if, under Samba, a full roaming profile is downloaded on each login whereas under Windows an rsync-like action takes place to only download minimal changes. I don't know whether that's the case or not, whether it's configurable behaviour under either Samba or Windows Server, but it's certainly an interesting point. Dave. -- Dave Ewart [email protected] Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK N 51.7516, W 1.2152
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