On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Matt Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > I am setting up a smb server running debian etch for a small office. > Due to circumstances outside my control, most of the client machines are > running Windows Vista Ultimate. The shares are all set up properly, > security is set, and we're good to go. > > Except that the throughput from any of the Vista machines to the server > is at best slow and at worst abysmal. After tweaking the socket > options, turning off various services in windows (Remote Differential > Compression), and even installing the freshly-released SP1, the best > I've been able to get is 12.5 MB/s reading from the samba server. SCP > gets 35-40 MB/s, and Vista to Vista transfers using SMB get 35-40 MB/s. > > I'm in the unfortunate position of having to recommend to my boss that > we put the data on another Vista machine and use that as a makeshift > file server until this problem can be ironed out. I very much do not > want to tell him that. Any help anyone can offer would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Matt Harris >
Since this email is old (I got it in my mailbox today though) you probably figured it out but I will ask anyways. Are you using samba-3.0.28a? John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
