gianfranco pra floriani wrote:
Other services using the VPN such as SCP, SSH, HTTP, FTP work very
good on the same connection, with no slow issues at all. I tried 2
kinds of VPN connections (OpenVPN and a router-proprietary VPN
gateway-to-client), and both have the same issue, both only with Samba.
I wonder if there is something I'm missing in client or server
configuration that makes Samba talking very slow when connections are
not coming from the LAN. The file transfer process works fine: once
the "saving file" or "copying file" process has begun, it takes the
same amount of time needed by a SCP or a FTP transfer command using
the same VPN connection. I tried to copy a 2MB file from client to
server and the time needed using SCP and using SAMBA (once the copy
process was started) was the same.
I have only got this to work nicely by using a WINS server pushed to
OpenVPN clients.
add something like to your openvpn config:
push "dhcp-option WINS 192.168.0.64"
and setup the samba server to be the wins server, and make sure everyone
on the lan points to it too (dhcp can do this)
then name resolution seems to work better, the client avoids broadcasts,
which don't flow over the VPN, and everthing is much faster.
dave
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