A lot of things have changed since RH9. However, one has to question the
wisdom of running a desktop distro like Ubuntu as a server.
I note that your new server is essentially the same speed as your old
one, but with only one HD. Also, you don't mention how much memory you
have or how many users are connecting to your server.
I know some people on this list are going to not like this suggestion,
but for a server I would recommend you downgrade to Debian Sarge, which
is running Samba 3.0.14a. This is a rock-solid distro that can be set up
as a server. Basically, with it you will only have to restart it if you
have a hardware problem.
To fix your speed problem, set your log level up higher in samba (it's
in smb.conf) to generate some data. You might even find the problem by
yourself. Samba itself is not that slow, so it is likely something about
your local setup.
re. your ideas:
1 & 2 are not good ideas
3. quite likely, but this sounds like something fundamental
4. probably not a good idea
Ubuntu is Debian based and may follow the same security settings. When
you copied your files, you may have copied them disk-to-disk which would
have kept the old user & group numbers. Your new numbers may be quite
different. You may have to look at your files on the disk and correct
the ownerships.
Are your accounts and groups set up correctly.
Is this a domain controller? Does it farm out password checking to
another server? You may want to set up SWAT and use the wizard to set up
the server in its intended role (domain controller, member server or
stand-alone).
Good luck.
Douglas D Germann Sr wrote:
Hi--
About 10 days ago I switched from a Red Hat 9.0 machine
as my Samba server to Ubuntu. Ever since, things have
been slow.
How do I mean, slow?
1st clue: previously, when I saved docs in OOo Writer,
I would go ctrl-S and once every 4th or 5th time it
would say it couldn't create a backup; now it is
every time. So to save I have to go ctrl-S esc esc ctrl-S.
2nd clue: WinXP on login to the server times out before
connecting the three drives it tries to connect--never before.
3rd clue: WinXp used to load directories instantly; now
it takes 4-5 seconds.
There is some other weirdness too: when logged in to the
server it reports the file owner and group as dean:1005.
dean is the name of another user on this client machine,
but rarely used. It should see it as doug:data, which is
how the server sees it.
Also it used to see the files as
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root 4.0K 2003-01-25 03:18 wgetrc
Now it sees them as
-rwxrwxrwx 1 dean data 99 1993-09-28 22:07 TEST.SDW
The new server: Ubuntu 6.06, Celeron D 2.53Ghz, one
200GB HDD, 6 months old. samba 3.0.22
The old server: RedHat 9.0, Celeron 2Ghz, one
80GB HDD with OS on it, one 120GB HDD with only data
on it, at least 3 years old. Samba is at least that old.
2.2.7a-security-rollup-fix
So the question is, how can I speed up the Ubuntu samba?
How would you troubleshoot this?
Some ideas I have not yet tried:
1. Remove all the commented lines from the smb.conf
file.
2. Perhaps older versions of samba are just faster
than the newer ones, and I should learn to live with it.
3. Perhaps there are some tweaks in samba that I need to
learn about.
4. Copy over the old smb.conf file to the new system.
Where should I start? What is most likely to have a good
payoff for time invested?
Thanks!
:- Doug.
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