Hi, Is the USB drive connected to a USB1 or USB2 port on your PC? I wonder if the bottleneck is there instead of across your network?
On 5 March 2010 15:53, Tommy Pyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've been trying to use my old Eee PC 701 as a server on my home network > for data on a 1TB external USB hard drive, however for some reason files are > being transferred painfully slow to my desktop via samba. I am considering > giving NFS a go to see if I can achieve faster transfers, but I also > remembered seeing a NAS adapter for USB storage a while back. > > Here's an example of which, from MicroDirect > http://www.microdirect.co.uk/home/product/38589/Single-Port-USB-NAS-Adapter > > The spec mentions that this product (as do many other NAS-USB adapters) > 'only supports XP or Vista'. Does anyone have any experience on using these > sort of things on Ubuntu? Specifically I wanted to know whether I will be > able to use samba to access the share that it creates and how the speed will > compare to using NFS on my old netbook. > > I am using Karmic on my desktop and Karmic NBR on the netbook. Any response > would be greatly appreciated, thanks, > > Tommy > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >
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