All our servers and computers are on only 1 switch that does 100Mb/s.
The samba server network card runs indeed at 100Mb/s (the "100" light is on, the "10" light is off).
It takes only 14 seconds to upload a 90MB file using FTP from a windows XP computer (let's call it client1) to the samba server.
BUT, the same file is transfered in 8 minutes (!!!) (upload or download) using SAMBA.
We tested the same transfer from another windows XP computer (let's call it client2) : it takes the same 8 minutes time.
We tested the same transfer from client2 to 2 other samba servers (a Redhat 8 with 1 proc and IDE disks with samba 2.2.7-5 and a Redhat 9 with 1 proc and IDE disks with samba 2.2.7a-8) :
I takes only a few seconds !!!
We tried using the same smb.conf file on the slow samba server (redhat 7.2), but it doesn't change anything.
So, our question is : what do we have to change on the slow samba server (redhat 7.2) ??? Do we have to install at least redhat 8 ? samba 2.2.7-5 ? anything else ?
Thanks for any help !!
Here is our /etc/smb.conf file (on the slow samba server) :
[global]
# workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup = WORKGROUP
# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field server string = Kronos Samba Server
load printers = no
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
# Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb). max log size = 50
# Security mode. Most people will want user level security. See # security_level.txt for details. security = user # Use password server option only with security = server ; password server = <NT-Server-Name>
# Password Level allows matching of _n_ characters of the password for # all combinations of upper and lower case. ; password level = 8 ; username level = 8
# You may wish to use password encryption. Please read # ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation. # Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
dns proxy = no
[homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S browseable = no ; this was "writable" (no "e") before : writeable = yes create mode = 0664 directory mode = 0775
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