On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:29:47AM +0100, Steffen Kauka wrote: > > You did suggest to try Samba 3 - I did it. My test environment consists of a > PC (Pentium 4 2.4 GHz CPU and 512 MB RAM), a SUN Blade 100 (500 MHz CPU, 256 > MB RAM) and between both a switched network at a speed of 100 MBit/s. The > smb.conf is the same as I mentioned in my initially posting. Unfortunately I > couldn't recognize any significant difference between Samba 2.2.8a and Samba > 3.0.1 :-( Now the good news! If I change the option 'preserve case' to 'yes' > the transfer rate increases by about 550% and that's really ok. I don't expect > any problems in this case because the source data I want to transfer are > lower case at all and UNIX-like. What do you mean with nasty implications? At > the moment I can't imagine a case.
Well this will work perfectly for your environment, where you have a read-only data set whose filenames you control the case of. It won't work in the general case where Windows apps create files though. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
