[plug] Samba

[Michael Hunt]

Make sure you are using the latest version of Samba (2.0.5a). If you are
running RedHat you can get a copy of from their errata/updates section. Just
backup your config files first or else you might find that all your share
info is blown away. There are quite a few enhancements to opplocks and the
networking, some of it specific to 95/98 boxes.  Also turn off any unused
services (i.e. squid, NFS, apache, snmp, xntp if you are not using them) on
the Linux box as these can also be causing slowness.

For info on tuning Linux boxes visit http://www.tunelinux.com/. Quite a bit
of info on speeding up samba, networking and info on hdparm etc. Also the
http://www.samba.org/ web pages are a good place to look. Check out the
documentation that came with samba as their are quite a few good text files
there also.

Upgrading to the latest version of samba, tweaking your disks for you
hardware (using hdparm) and turning off any unused services would to me seem
the bast way to go.

Michael Hunt

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf Of
Peter Booth
Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 3:43 PM
To: plug at linux.org.au
Subject: [plug] Samba


I am using a Linux server as a file server (Samba) for an accounting
database application.

Samba works fine with low traffic stuff but when I re-index the database
which involves high disk i/o, the procedure takes a lot longer on the Linux
server as against a Win95/98 Server. For example: the Windows Server takes 5
mins against the Linux Samba Server's 40 minutes using PC's of the same
power through a 10Base network.

Any suggestions?